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BRICSs: Beyond Developing? BRICs and Global Economic Power BRICs and Global Political Power BRICs and Inequality BRICs and the Silent Power of Ideas The Innovation-Equality-Development Triangle

About the Author

FRANCESCA BEAUSANG is Senior Economist at 4CAST, where she covers both emerging markets and developed markets. Prior to that she worked as a strategist specializing in Eastern Europe and as UK economist. Before joining 4CAST, she was a lecturer in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. She was educated at the London School of Economics and at Cambridge University, where she undertook research on Brazilian and Chilean multinational enterprises and on innovation policy. She has published a book entitled Third World Multinationals, Engine of Competitiveness or New Form of Dependency?