Brazil’s trade with China has expanded at a tremendous pace over the past few years. Between 1999 and 2004, its exports … to China have grown by 800 percent in value terms while the value of its imports from China has more than tripled. China … government actively pursues closer trade and investment links with China, critics fear that potential resulting shifts in …

This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two … decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population … reversal of commodity exporting countries’ terms of trade are a result of China’s non-marginal impact of consumption. This …