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A Prognosis and Diagnosis for China and the 2016 G20: The Politics of a New Global Economic Geography

author(s) Chan, S.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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themes
regions
  • Southern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
  • Eastern Europe
  • Europe
  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • South America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
citation

Chan, S. A Prognosis and Diagnosis for China and the 2016 G20: The Politics of a New Global Economic Geography. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK (2016) 26 pp. (IDS Evidence Report No. 169)

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Abstract

The aim of this report is to argue that – for 2016 – the China that will greet the states of the G20 will be a China that aims to change the material world. The idea is growth and development simultaneously, organised at the most macro level possible. The report suggests that the world is witnessing a refurbishment of China’s old Three World Theory – in which the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group and the G20 play pivotal roles

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