BRICS civil society initiatives: towards the inclusion of affected communities in collective development?
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) bloc’s stated commitment to collective, inclusive development through the creation of the civil society participatory mechanism Civil BRICS. This state-created civil society platform within the bloc purports to shape BRICS policies in favour of the poor. We argue that after a decade of BRICS co-operation, […]