BRICS: An Opportunity for a Transformative South?. (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sarkar, Urvashi
• Other Names: Sharma Devika guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: South Asian survey. Volume 21:Number 1/2(2014:Mar.)
• Page Start: 127
• Page End: 137
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: BRICS -- South -- NDB -- civil society -- trade unions people's movements; South Asia -- Periodicals; 330.954
• DOI: 10.1177/0971523115592495
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0971-5231

Abstract

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have received considerable analysis as a group attempting to present an alternative to West-driven institutions and hegemony. While its formation is a positive development for the South, it requires to reach out to civil society. BRICS, minus a robust civil society involvement, will only result in entrenching viewpoints that see the BRICS as representing narrow business interests of a southern elite, with little concern for the gamut of socio-economic problems confronting the people of Southern nations.