Abstract
Background: The article discusses whether global governance is effective enough to uphold the economic development and can it combat poverty to achieve Sustainable Development Goal One (SDG 1) in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). It is an area that is least researched in the domain of global governance.Aim: This article focuses on the SDGs as part of global goals and investigates the implementation status of SDG 1 (no poverty) in BRICS countries.Setting: The research is descriptive in nature that played an important role in developing an in-depth account of the status of SDG 1 in BRICS.Methods: The article employed a qualitative, descriptive research method. This article, which is theoretical in nature, drew its arguments on secondary data, which included books, journal articles, newspaper clippings, internet sources and official documents.Results: The findings confirm that global governance cannot be successful completely until it deals with aspects of legitimacy and representation.Conclusion: From the literature reviewed, it can be deduced that BRICS is not in a position to achieve SDG 1 on absolute terms.
Highlights
Governance is defined as the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs (Røen 2011)
The findings confirm that global governance cannot be successful completely until it deals with aspects of legitimacy and representation
It can be deduced further that not all BRICS Summits discussed the need to eradicate poverty as much of the focus was on other SDGs
Summary
Governance is defined as the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs (Røen 2011). Global governance reforms to achieve Sustainable Development Goal One (no poverty) in BRICS
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