Sameer Dossani

At the 2012 Delhi summit of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS), the leaders of the five nations agreed to launch a BRICS development bank. The following year in Durban, the initiative was given a name – the New Development Bank (NDB). While perhaps not the most original of monikers, the name does beg questions – how new is the New Development Bank? Whose development are we talking about here? And does the world need another multilateral bank?
The NDB should be building up technical expertise, research and documenting various development experiences. Despite the noble efforts of some, such as Cambridge economist Ha Joon Chang, there still is not enough documentation on why and how countries develop. There is even less documentation putting that theory into practice in the context of a particular developing country, and where that documentation exists it is usually coloured by the political agendas of the World Bank and the IMF. The NDB should build up a counterweight to those narratives and work with underdeveloped countries who may request help to develop their own strategies of economic transformation.

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  1. shinichi Post author

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    政治の道具としての経済のメカニズムやシステムは、本当の目的を隠したまま、世界に安定をもたらすための重要なものだという認識をみんなのなかに植え付ける。「困ったときには、いつでも助けますからね」というのは高利貸しの常套文句だが、そのフレーズを聞けばみんなは安心する。

    欧米側のものであろうと、BRICSの側のものであろうと、それが政治の道具である限り、本当のことは言えない。政治というものは不思議なもので、宣伝のためにメディアをやたらと使うわりには、肝心なことはなにも言おうとしない。「現実の政治というものは、隠すことと見つけたり」、である。

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