by Chris Jordan | May 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
To mark the completion of Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures, BBC Hardtalk presenter Stephen Sackur is hosting a podcast series examining the current issues and debates highlighted by the research. The rising powers represent one of the main drivers of global...
by Corinna Braun-Munzinger | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Lord Jim O’Neill, creator of the acronym BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China, opened the final conference of the ESRC Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures programme with a keynote lecture about Rising Powers and 21st century globalisation. Based on an...
by Corinna Braun-Munzinger | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures programme is hosting a series of public lectures this June: 20 June 2017: Professor Raphael Kaplinsly, University of Sussex ‘Do Standards in Global Value Chains Support or Undermine the Sustainable Development Goals...
by Chris Jordan | Sep 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Many in Western countries think of emerging economies such as China and India as places with weak labour standards where workers are being exploited. This ignores changes on the ground in many ‘rising powers’ countries, such as China, India, South Africa and Brazil,...
by Chris Jordan | Aug 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Matthew AlfordImage by Mister GC,FreeDigitalPhotos.netIn a recent article in Geoforum, Matthew Alford explains how the concept of trans-scalar embeddedness helps to understand the governance deficit around working conditions in the South African fruit sector. On...
by Chris Jordan | Jun 28, 2016 | China, John Knight, Uncategorized
by Global Development Institute (GDI), University of ManchesterProfessor John Knight, The University of Oxford, recently spoke at the GDI on ‘the principal-agent problem, the developmental state, subjective well-being and social instability: China’s...