The (BR)IC Way: An Alternative Path to Development?
| Date | 01 January 2015 |
| Published date | 01 January 2015 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829814557556 |
| Author | Alexander Brand |
| Subject Matter | Review Articles |
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2015, Vol. 43(2) 706 –713
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1. The original term BRIC refers to the sample of emerging economies lumped together by Goldman
Sachs in the mid-2000s: Brazil, Russia, India and China. BRICS (or BRICSA) includes South
The (BR)IC Way: An
Alternative Path to
Development?
Alexander Brand
Rhein-Waal University, Germany
Abstract
This review article assesses two books against the background of the question of whether China
and India as emerging economies provide a development ‘alternative’. The double meaning of this
refers to, first, their own experience of recent rapid growth and the chances of replicating this
development elsewhere. Second, it points to the external development assistance policies of the
BRICs towards the global South and their impact on development thinking and practice.
Keywords
BRICs, development, development aid, China, India, micro-politics
Xiaoming Huang, Alexander C. Tan and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (eds), China, India
and the End of Development Models (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2012, 312 pp., £63.00 hbk).
Marcus Power, Giles Mohan and May Tan-Mullins, China’s Resource Diplomacy in Africa.
Powering Development? (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2012, 352 pp., £60.00 hbk).
A spectre seems to be haunting the development community recently, namely the devel-
opment success of the BRIC states and their arrival at the international development
scene as so-called ‘emerging donors’. While most of the attention is focused on China’s
role in global development, other candidates from the BRIC (alternatively the BRICS,
BRICSA or BRIICS1) camp and their developmental impact are occasionally assessed as
Corresponding author:
Alexander Brand, Faculty of Society and Economics, Rhein-Waal University, Marie-Curie-Straße 1, D-47533,
Kleve, Germany.
Email: alexander.brand@hochschule-rhein-waal.de
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