How Bangladesh can benefit by joining BRICS

Newsweek
6 Jun 2023

In April this year, South Africa’s BRICS ambassador Anil Sooklal told Bloomberg that a long list of nations were now looking to join the bloc. According to an official of the foreign ministry, Bangladesh will apply to join the BRICS alliance, and the process to formally seek its membership is already underway. In this interview with Newsweek, SAIIA’s Senior Researcher Cobus van Staden says the interest among developing countries to join the NBD is driven by dual dynamics affecting the Global South.

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