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Chinese research ship arriving at Hambantota Port in 2022.

Sovereign debt

Sri Lanka has made important steps towards debt restructuring

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by Arjuna Ranawana
Uncertain time ahead for South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Elections

How South Africa negotiated its new government

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by Henning Melber
Handicraft items figure among Nepal’s exports: woman weaving a shawl at a trade fair in Kathmandu in early 2023.

Landlocked nation

Nepal is sandwiched between two BRICS members

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by Rukamanee Maharjan
Container handling in the port of Mannheim in Germany.

China

How China is causing global shifts

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by Matthias von Hein
Republic Day celebrations in Gurugram in the Indian state of Haryana on 26 January.

International cooperation

How India’s global influence could develop

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by Jörn Geißelmann
by Johannes Kummerow
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
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
Svenja Schulze, Germany’s federal minister for economic cooperation and development, visiting a boarding school in Burkina Faso in March.

Development policy

Germany’s development policy serves all people

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by Svenja Schulze
Svenja Schulze
Disease control is a global public good: Covid-19 test in São Paulo in early 2022.

Global agenda

Global public goods matter for global development

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by André de Mello e Souza
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