Fellow-BRICS road: a club expands
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The alliance was always based more on common fortunes than common interests. We ask what to make of the six new members, and whether the bloc’s motley nature undermines its purpose. Regulation has struggled in an era when children can become “influencers”, but it is starting to catch up (9:36). And remembering Bindeshwar Pathak, who realised India’s future depended on toilets (16:28).
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| 1:05.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.1 | Every weekday, |
| 1:15.9 | we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:25.9 | Just about anybody can be an influencer these days, and their influence, getting you to buy stuff, can be pretty subtle. We examine how the law |
| 1:29.3 | is catching up when it comes to influencers who are children. Kidfluensers. And in India's past, |
| 1:38.6 | dealing with human waste was left to a cast of so-called untouchables. Our obituaries editor pays tribute to Bindishwar Patak, |
| 1:46.4 | who made it his mission to provide better lies for those people |
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