Globalisation and Emerging Economies
Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa
This book analyses key elements of the trade performance of the BRIICS in relation to the rest of the world, focusing on trade and other policies influencing that performance. Developments in global trade policy are reviewed, notably the impact of preferential trade agreements on the multilateral system and patterns of world trade are described using both indices that reveal networks of trading relations and more standard modeling results.
As well as the global analysis, the book also presents a separate chapter for each of the BRIICS, examining the key development and trade issues in each of the six countries over the past few years.
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Globalisation, Multinationals and the BRIICS
In order to understand the nature of the contemporary phase of globalisation, this chapter adopts the economists’ focus on international trade, international investment and international markets from the particular perspective of economic geography. From the standpoint of economic geography, it explores the explicitly spatial and regional characteristics and impacts of contemporary globalisation. Through the lens of international investment, impacts on individual countries, groups of countries, regions and cities are also analysed. The processes of globalisation which are mediated by the foreign direct investment (FDI) behaviour of multinational enterprises (MNEs) or trans-national corporations (TNCs) form a particular focus of this chapter. Impacts of globalisation on the BRIICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa are also considered from an economic-geographic viewpoint.
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