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Answer in about 150 words: Analyse the relevance of India-Brazil economic co-operation in strengthening the bilateral relations between the two countries.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 10 marks
  • India and the Global South

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India and Brazil have long agreed on the architecture of world order: both sit in BRICS, IBSA, the G20 and the G4, and they became strategic partners in 2006. What the relationship lacked was material weight. In Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye's Power and Interdependence (1977), dense economic ties create domestic stakeholders who…

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