BRICS+ and the Global South

Award-winning journalist Alan Emerson will discuss the above topic at 5:30pm on Wednesday 9 October at 2/57 Willis Street, Welllington.

The BRICS agreement between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa was established in 2010. Since then it has expanded to include Iran, Egypt, Ethipia, Saudia Arabia and UAE with many other counties including Turkiye wanting to join.

The BRICS+ summit will be held in Kazan, Russia later in October. The BRICS+ countries collectively now represent 45% of the world’s population with approximately 3.5 billion people, a third of the Earth’s solid surface, 44% of total global oil production as well as almost 1/3 of global GDP, amounting to approximately 29 trillion dollars, having surpassed in purchasing power parity terms the G7, the group of the seven most powerful economies of the developed world.

There is very little coverage of its significance in the New Zealand media. Alan Emerson will discuss the strategic and trade opportunities available within the alliance and what New Zealand should do to capitalise on them. He has previously written about it here.

Alan Emerson was educated at Greymouth Technical High and Lincoln University. He worked as a deer culler, wool presser, farm advisor and soldier before settling for a career in journalism. He has worked in New Zealand and overseas and was Radio NZ’s editor during the halcyon days of RD Muldoon, and now writes regularly for the rural and faming media.