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Video: South Africa’s finance minister on the future of BRICS

Nhlanhla Musa Nene
Minister of Finance, Republic of South Africa

I think the world is faced with a number of challenges. Key among those is slowing global economic growth and the falling oil prices, which feed into a number of other instances.

Watch a clip of Nhlanhla Musa Nene, South Africa’s minister of finance, at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2015 in Davos above, and catch up with his full session on the BRICS agenda, here.

Image: Silio Boccanera, Justin Lin, Arun Jaitley, Marcelo Cortes Neri, Nhlanhla Musa Nene, Alexei Kudrin and Carlos Ghosn are captured during the session ‘The BRICS Agenda’ in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2015.WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Michael Buholzer

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