Dr. habil. Victor Krasilshchikov is a Russian economist and a specialist in development studies with a focus on the comparison of East Asia and Latin America. He is a member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES). As of recently he is also chief researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (the Russian Academy of Sciences).

• Introduction. Why Brazil?.- The “Multi-polar World”, BRICS, and the Coming Chinese Hegemony: Prognoses and Daydreams.- Thunderclouds over the Emerging Countries and the Middle-Income Trap.- The Rise to Modernity via Conservative Modernisation.- The New Model of Development or Conservative Modernisation in the Left-Centrist Arrangements?.- The Costs of Success and Return to the Past.- How Did the Incomes of Brazilians Change under the Left Government?.- The Brazilian Society as the Obstacle to Self-Modification.- Concluding Remarks: Some Prospects for Brazil and Other Emerging Countries, or the Myth of Emergence?.

Dr. habil. Victor Krasilshchikov is a Russian economist and a specialist in development studies with a focus on the comparison of East Asia and Latin America. He is a member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES). As of recently he is also chief researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (the Russian Academy of Sciences).

• Introduction. Why Brazil?.- The “Multi-polar World”, BRICS, and the Coming Chinese Hegemony: Prognoses and Daydreams.- Thunderclouds over the Emerging Countries and the Middle-Income Trap.- The Rise to Modernity via Conservative Modernisation.- The New Model of Development or Conservative Modernisation in the Left-Centrist Arrangements?.- The Costs of Success and Return to the Past.- How Did the Incomes of Brazilians Change under the Left Government?.- The Brazilian Society as the Obstacle to Self-Modification.- Concluding Remarks: Some Prospects for Brazil and Other Emerging Countries, or the Myth of Emergence?.

Dr. habil. Victor Krasilshchikov is a Russian economist and a specialist in development studies with a focus on the comparison of East Asia and Latin America. He is a member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES). As of recently he is also chief researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (the Russian Academy of Sciences).

• Introduction. Why Brazil?.- The “Multi-polar World”, BRICS, and the Coming Chinese Hegemony: Prognoses and Daydreams.- Thunderclouds over the Emerging Countries and the Middle-Income Trap.- The Rise to Modernity via Conservative Modernisation.- The New Model of Development or Conservative Modernisation in the Left-Centrist Arrangements?.- The Costs of Success and Return to the Past.- How Did the Incomes of Brazilians Change under the Left Government?.- The Brazilian Society as the Obstacle to Self-Modification.- Concluding Remarks: Some Prospects for Brazil and Other Emerging Countries, or the Myth of Emergence?.