Emerging Powers

For Singaporeans, the recipe for their success is the ‘shared vision’ collectively owned by the nation’s leaders with a national zeitgeist to invest in its key resource – its people.

Early March 2018, Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Hommes d’Afriquemagazine that, “our African friends note the need for Russia’s active presence in the region, and more frequently express interest in holding a Russia-African summit.

Addressing a group of invited African leaders at the 2018 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit on 27 July in Johannesburg, South Africa, Putin told the gathering “I would like to inform you that we are studying the idea of holding a Russia-Africa summit with the participat

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Republic of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted the tenth BRICS Summit where strong opposition to the burgeoning trade and currency wars initiated by the United States administration of President Donald Trump was assailed.

Uganda’s experience since independence

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If anything, two of the BRICS powers – China and India – are investing billions of dollars in coal-fired thermal-power generation in Africa while winning global applause for increasing their solar and wind power at home.

This process is not new, it has been unfolding over several decades and has given rise to the phenomena of neoliberalism, globalisation and financialisation. These are capital’s means to overcome the crises of capitalism globally.

Chatter about reforming multilateral economic power structures, launching a new BRICS credit ratings agency, and prospects for leapfrog technology within the “4th Industrial Revolution” (4IR) also filled the air.