The BRICS in Africa: Promoting Development?

✍ Scribed by Funeka Y. April (editor); Modimowabarwa Kanyane (editor); Yul Derek Davids (editor)

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 449
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—have become a strong engine of South-South cooperation, contributing to a significant shift in the global balance of power. They also, taken as a whole, constitute Africa's largest trading partner. The authors of this new collection consider the potential of BRICS–Africa cooperation for promoting sustainable African development.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations and acronyms
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction and general Overview
Section 1: Governance in the Post-COVID-19 Era
Chapter 2: BRICS governance and ethics architecture: Challenges and prospects
Chapter 3: China–Africa cooperation in the post-pandemic era: Challenges and way forward
Section 2: Relevance of BRICS Multi-Development Bank Funding and Infrastructure Development
Chapter 4: BRICS New Development Bank: A development finance model conducive to strengthening South–South Cooperation
Chapter 5: BRICS, the New Development Bank and African development
Chapter 6: Strengthening the BRICS Financial Cooperation Mechanism: Promoting pragmatic development
Chapter 7: Analysing the BRICS Development Bank's response to COVID-19
Section 3: BRICS and Technology in Africa
Chapter 8: The future of work in South Africa
Chapter 9: Financing renewable energy technologies in BRICS
Chapter 10: Promoting financial technology partnerships in BRICS
Section 4: Addressing Economic Development Disparities and Inequalities in BRICS and Africa
Chapter 11: BRICS and transformation of Africa’s infrastructure in the COVID-19 era: Rhetoric and reality
Chapter 12: Lessons in sustainable development for South Africa from the affordable housing policy of the BRICS countries
Chapter 13: Women entrepreneurs in the BRICS informal economy: A transformative agenda amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 14: BRICS: Finding and Funding the Nexus Between Peace, Security and Development
Chapter 15: African low-income countries’ leapfrogging development and the role of the BRICS countries: A case study of Ethiopia and Rwanda
Section 5: BRICS and the Health Industry in Africa
Chapter 16: An innovation-sharing platform for vaccine research in BRICS: Strategies for the sustainable financing of innovation
Chapter 17: Assessing COVID-19 and telemedicine collaboration on energy and internet communications technology: Implications for health in Africa
Chapter 18: China–Africa health cooperation and its implications during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 19: Resilience of health systems to disease outbreaks: COVID-19 – A comparative analysis of South Africa and other BRICS countries using the Global Health Security Index
Chapter 20: Conclusion: Way forward for BRICS and development in Africa
About the Authors
Index

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