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0203/2018 - The social question in the project of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)
A questão social no projeto do BRICS (Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul)

Author:

• Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato - Lobato, Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa - <lenauralobato@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-9523


Abstract:

BRICS, the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is the first multilateral group created and run by non-western developed countries. The objective of the group is to influence global geopolitics and the market based on the right of poor and emerging countries to participate in equal conditions. The social question lies at the heart of the group\'s justifications for its goals. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyse the treatment given to the social question by BRICS. The methodology was based on bibliographic research and documentary analysis of the Declarations resultingthe nine BRICS Summits held2009 to 2017. The results indicate that the social question was necessary for the affirmation of the group\'s project in the global context. However, even though there are advances in some social indicators and poverty reduction, the results in many social commitments of the group are fragile. It can be attributed to the centrality of national contexts in the social question, to internal differences between countries, to the non-mandatory nature of the group initiatives, or to the fact that, while demonstrating potency in strategies for new global arrangements, the social question remains subsumed to geopolitical and market objectives.

Keywords:

BRICS – social question – social policy

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Lobato, Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa. The social question in the project of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2018/Apr). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-social-question-in-the-project-of-brics-brazil-russia-india-china-and-south-africa/16736?id=16736



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