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plebiscite

Even a decade later, an informal plebiscite for the renationalization of Vale organized by unions, students, and the Landless People’s Movement in 2007 was able to mobilize three million votes.

—p.57 The Worst Company in the World (53) missing author
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China's membership in the BRICS

Membership in the BRICS is also key to China’s flexible geopolitical position. While the BRICS grouping has different meanings to different participants, for China it is part of a strategy to construct a counterpole to Western power — not through overthrowing the current global structures, but by b…

—p.50 The New Scramble for Africa (45) by Padraig Carmody
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Washington Consensus

Still, there are differences between the “Washington Consensus” policies of the past and those advanced by the brics. For one, China does not have a neoliberal economy

—p.50 The New Scramble for Africa (45) by Padraig Carmody
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