> collaborating closer People and countries collaborate on things all the time, not necessarily because of a consultative organization they happen to be in. I

> collaborating closer People and countries collaborate on things all the time, not necessarily because of a consultative organization they happen to be in. It's more likely that those countries, they collaborate with each other "despite BRICS", or "despite G7" that because of it. > BRICS Development Bank But the same countries are also part of the International Monetary Fund, a kind-of-bank that is more or less the "G7 Bank" (G7 countries usually hold large ammounts of XDR votes in the IMF) and much more important.