The G20 and BRICS were born in a crowded world of international institutions following the 2008 financial and economic crisis. The G20 sought to manage the crisis, reform the international architecture and devise a new global consensus. BRICS committed to foster cooperation and policy...

The BRICS countries' position in today's global governance system is defined by their increasing weight in the world economy. According to Jim O'Neill, who in 2001 predicted the economic growth in the BRIC countries, “all four of the BRIC countries have exceeded the expectations I had of them...

The G20 and the BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa were born in a crowded world of international institutions in the wake of the 2008 financial and economic crisis. The G20 pledged to manage the crisis, reform international financial institutions and devise a new...

Health is an indispensable public good. At the national level it has been manifested in the BRICS governments' commitment to scale up health financing, though to a different degree. At the global level it is evidenced by the international community progress on the three health-related Millennium...

This concluding chapter looks across BRICS as a whole to examine differences and commonalities in development discourses, and in the structures that have emerged as a consequence of international engagements, as well as the role of the BRICS grouping’s emerging collective structures and their...