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Have the BRICS moved the centre of economic and political power? | Counting the Cost

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Two decades ago, investment bank Goldman Sachs came up with an acronym that was supposed to shift the economic balance of power.

The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China (and South Africa, which was added later) - would, over time, come to dominate the rankings of the world’s richest economies. But 20 years on, the group has failed to live up to its author’s expectations.

Edward Glossop, emerging markets economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments, explains what has gone wrong.

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