Ten years of BRICs: Why they need a place at the power brokers' table

THE BRIC NATIONS

GSAM chairman argues the four BRIC countries should play a greater part in global decisions over the coming years.

Last week was the tenth anniversary of when I first mentioned the BRIC acronym when I published GS Global Economics Paper No: 66, Building Better Global Economic BRICs. As I am sure a number of readers now know, I am publishing a book to celebrate the anniversary. It is called The Growth Map. Any proceeds accrued to me from the book will be donated to the charity SHINE, Support and Help In Education (www.shinetrust.org.uk) that I am chair of and helped set up with some friends back in 1999. The 2001 paper did not create a lot of attention at the time. It was not really until after the...