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BRICS: the new Syndicate

Mumbai: This quarter was dominated by the BRICS alliance. The first BRICS meeting to be held in India was hosted in New Delhi on 29 March 2012. The big announcement was the possible establishment of a...

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BRICS: The new Syndicate

BRICS: The new Syndicate This quarter was dominated by the BRICS alliance. The first BRICS meeting to be held in India was hosted in New Delhi on 29 March 2012. The big announcement was the possible...

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A mandate for BRICS Bank

At the 5th BRICS Summit that begins in South Africa today, the heads of state of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are expected to ratify the creation of the BRICS Bank. After discussion...

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A clarion call to study BRICS

On July 6th, Chinese and Russian universities jointly launched the BRICS Universities League, a consortium of institutions dedicated to study the five BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and...

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Africa and Obama: Stepping into the Spotlight

It was four years ago in the summer of 2009 when Barack Obama made his first trip to Africa as the US president. His stop? Ghana. For many people with little or no knowledge about Ghana, his choice of...

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Zimbabwe: The road to stability?

Robert Gabriel Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic front (ZANU-PF) has won a seventh term as leader of the government of Zimbabwe. In polls on 31 July, ZANU-PF got around 61% of the...

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Honouring Nelson Mandela

When Nelson Mandela stepped across the threshold of Victor Verster prison in South Africa in 1990, where he spent the last three years of his 27 years of incarceration, he once again bolstered...

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South Africa: new contender emerges

The fifth general election in South Africa was far from mundane. It was underlined by the significance of the country’s 20th anniversary of its political transition to a democratic dispensation. In...

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Mandate for BRICS Bank

Two years after it was initially proposed, the mandate of the BRICS Bank still remains unclear. China is pushing for the bank to take a greater role in infrastructure. Russia is looking for the bank as...

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Three reasons the BRICS’ bank matters

Although the tragic incident of MH17 now attracts global attention, the real big news last week was the establishment of the BRICS development bank at the BRICS summit in Brazil, which has long-term...

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The case for BRICS swaps

At the last BRICS Summit held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa on March 29th in New Delhi, the development banks of the participating countries agreed on a proposal to extend...

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Accessing healthcare beyond state borders

The untimely death of Meles Zenawi, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in a hospital in Brussels on 20 August 2012, once again highlights the condition of the healthcare sector in Africa. So far in 2012,...

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Does the BRICS Group Matter?

The group of fast-growing emerging markets known as the BRICS–Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa–held their fourth annual summit this past week in New Delhi. The leaders of the five nations...

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BRICS: the new Syndicate

Mumbai: This quarter was dominated by the BRICS alliance. The first BRICS meeting to be held in India was hosted in New Delhi on 29 March 2012. The big announcement was the possible establishment of a...

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Intra-BRICS Trade: an illustrative guide

  In 2001, Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O’Neill predicted that over the next 10 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China (the ‘BRIC’) will form a significant share of world GDP and this should be taken...

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Is BRICS still relevant?

The 13th BRICS summit is set to be held on September 9 in digital format under India’s chairmanship. This plurilateral grouping comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is chaired by...

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India-Africa through a new lens

Our COVID-19 vocabulary expanded as the World Health Organization (WHO) named the latest mutant detected in South Africa, Omicron, terming it “a variant of concern”. With this discovery sending waves...

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The pravasi in India’s independence struggle

India celebrates her 75th Independence Day on 15 August this year, marking the beginning of year-long Azadi ki Amrit Mahotsav events. These will be both celebratory and solemn, the latter a reminder of...

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Geopolitics, G20 and India’s Choices

The clock is ticking. In about three months, India will assume for the first time the Group of 20 (G20) year-long presidency from December 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023, culminating with the G20 Summit...

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Double standards at the UNSC

On September 30th, the Russian veto killed a United Nations Security Council resolution[1] tabled by the U.S. and Albania to condemn the annexation of the four Ukrainian provinces occupied by Moscow’s...

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