In today's world with its global transformation of the economic order and fairly prominent vector of changes in the geopolitical balance of power more and more attention to itself accentuates the mysterious and gaining strength every year the acronym BRIC, which is already more correct to refer to the BRICS, in view of the accession to the Brazil, Russia,India and China, Republic of South Africa.Today, the BRIC countries have become a very significant player in the global economic and political arena.
State shall be a few decades ago, enlightened and well-fed west developing, rapidly turning into the economic, industrial, political and military giants of this world.At first glance, they are so different, these countries have much in common.First of all they are all extremely rich in minerals and natural resources.In addition, the BRIC countries - are the four most powerful of the market, each of which has its own unique features.
What could link together these different states, and quite unlike the nation with a completely different mentality?A lot of them united by a variety of factors.But mostly characterized them by the presence of a strong economic potential and ambitious ambitions of state managers who want to confront all aspects of the "Big Six" - the US, France, Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy, which, by the way, are going through a severe economic crisis, to a largeextent affects their power.
all BRIC countries, this association monsters of the world economy in the recent past experienced a change in the political system, or fundamental change in state policy, which gave them the opportunity to play with the countries of the "Big Six" by their rules and their field.While the advantage is clearly not on the side of the West and Japan had joined him.
In light of the recent accession of South Africa to that association overall economic potential of this great quintet has increased significantly.Given the global crisis did not rule out the possibility that in the near future Russia and BRICS become key figures in the world economy.And perhaps not only the economy ...
Anyway, all the prerequisites for this are obvious.Even today, the BRIC countries have five of the top 10 largest metropolitan areas of the planet, in the territory of which not only focus on the enormous amount of capital, but also the many millions of wealthy consumers, constantly striving to the heights of the socio-economic ladder.It is in these mega-cities or urban conglomerates number of millionaires increases with incredible speed than can not boast of any of the "Big Six".
term BRIC was first introduced in the business lexicon in 2003, with the light hand of the economist Jim O'Neill, describes the economic picture of the future of the world.According to his forecasts, no later than the year 2050 the combined economic potential of the BRIC countries will allow them to dominate the world and significantly outperform not only the United States but all Western European countries combined.This quintet experts unanimously tipped the fate of the most promising investment of the globe during the twenty-first century.It is in this country as now hiding under the acronym BRIC, featured in numerous reports and reports of various reputable international financial institutions.
