Diminishing Social Inequalities: BRICS Development Patterns

Arising from globalisation, new forms of associations have generated a more interconnected world with a vigorous regional basis. A new regionalism, which aims to transform political, social and economical dimension of the international structure, is been consolidated. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) considered as emerging powers, have built an "independent international organization that works for a structured social, political, economic and environmentally sustainable" new order. This analysis seeks to examine the efforts that these five countries have embarked on accomplishing a social sustainable development by diminishing their social inequalities; and to analyse how affordable, or not, policies and strategies carried out inside of the countries would be effective to achieve "a more equitable and fair world".

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Erika Samantha Franco Pena is a PhD Student in Development Studies at the Univ. of Vienna, Austria. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International Relations, and a Master Degree in Executive Direction (MBA) from the Anahuac Univ., Mexico; and an Erasmus Mundus Master Degree in Global Studies from the Univ. of Vienna and Univ. of Wroclaw, Poland.