Southern engines of global growth

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Southern engines of global growth / Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan -- Historical, economic, and political contexts. China, India, Brazil, and South Africa in the world economy : engines of growth? / Deepak Nayyar ; Southern engines of global growth : very long cycles or short spurts? / Meghnad Desai -- Development approaches and growth paths. China's economic growth : trajectories and evolving institutions / Jun Zhang ; Global growth and distribution : are China and India reshaping the world? / Maurizio Bussolo ... [et al.] ; Vietnam following in China's footsteps : the third wave of emerging Asian economies / Jean-Raphael Chaponnière, Jean-Pierre Cling, and Bin Zhou -- The role of capital flows, investments, and trade. The liberalization of capital outflows in china, India, Brazil, and South Africa : what opportunities for other developing countries? / Ricardo Gottschalk and Cecilia Azevedo Sodré ; China, India, Brazil, South Africa : capital flows and exchange rates : what lessons have been learnt since the East Asian Crisis of 1997-8? / Marion Pircher ; Foreign direct investment from China, India, and South Africa in sub-Saharan Africa : a new or old phenomenon? / John Henley ... [et al.] ; National policies to attract foreign direct investment in research and development : an assessment of Brazil and selected countries / Mariana Zanatta ... [et al.] ; Foreign direct investment and trade in the Southern African developing community / Henri Bezuidenhout and Wim Naudé.

The volume explores how the southern engines, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. It looks at their development experiences, and examines how these could provide useful lessons to the developing world.