HKUST's Department of Economics, reviews the efficacy of minimum wage policies across BRICS countries, i.e. Brazil, Russia …, India, China, and South Africa, highlighting their success or lackthereof as related to critical factors such as labor … compliance and enforcement in each country. For example, in China, India, and South Africa, where enforcement is relatively high …

Memorial Lecture, organised by the Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai]. …

The term BRICs puts under a common label the four largest fast growing emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India and … external relations (trade, FDI) and on likely future developments. Brazil is a domestically oriented service economy; Russia … China. The BRICs show many common features, such as big land size, large population, fast economic growth etc., but …

This policy paper, prepared as part of the Background Study for the European Competitiveness Report 2009, analyses the …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

by 1% for the USA and China and 40% for Brazil when taking trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the …

phenomenon between the financial markets of the USA, Brazil, Russia, India and China during the current crisis. …