Why a BRICS currency is the way forward for the Global South
... likely changes in the configuration of the global financial system, with scenarios ranging from a bi-polar system dominated by the dollar-yuan duopoly and various multipolar scenarios, involving among other possibilities the creation of a BRICS reserve currency. And it is the prospect of the creation of R5 – the provisional name for the would-be BRICS currency (all BRICS currencies start with the letter “R”) – that is shifting into the epicenter of the increasingly heated global debate. A lot ...