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Dilma Rousseff, president of the BRICS-owned New Development Bank, addressing the NDB’s annual meeting in Shanghai in 2023.

Our View

Why the unconvincing BRICS+ alliance looks so formidable

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by Hans Dembowski
Where development schemes are nationally owned, aid works: a three-year old plays with her mother’s cell phone during a storm in a Bangladeshi cyclone shelter in 2022.

Development cooperation

Aid is problematic, but indispensable

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by Iwan J. Azis
Gro Harlem Brundtland presenting the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development in London in 1987.

SDGs

The sustainability agenda humankind needs

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by Iwan J. Azis
Someone was missing: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came to the BRICS summit in South Africa in President Vladimir Putin’s place.

BRICS enlargement

Why more BRICS members are not necessarily better

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by Henning Melber
“Conservative understanding of office”: Karim Khan, the ICC Chief Prosecutor during a press conference at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine in September 2023.

Israel and Palestine

„This is rich coming from an Israeli leader“

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by D+C / E+Z
Iran and China are likely to benefit most from BRICS expansion: Iran's former president Ebrahim Raisi and Xi Jinping, China's president, in February 2023.

International affairs

Why BRICS+ may prove weaker than expected

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by André de Mello e Souza
Talks between China and Malawi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit 2023.

Southern Africa

Why Africa is caught between two stools with BRICS

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by Geoffrey Mzumara
Climate finance can lower the costs of alternatives to fossil fuels: solar farm in Zimbabwe.

Global governance

Phasing out fossil fuels with climate finance

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by Karol Kempa
by Michael König-Sykorova
by Ulf Moslener
by Oliver Schenker

Large-scale projects

Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe

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by Progress Mwareya
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