India (New Delhi) hosts 4th BRICS Summit on March 29, 2012 with theme of ‘Partnership for Stability, Security and Growth’.
Following a meeting in Brasilia in 2010, to which South Africa was invited as a guest, the group invited South Africa to join as a full member in 2011 and the group formerly called BRIC officially became BRICS.
- BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China.
- BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
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Summit |
Date |
Host Country – Leader |
Participants |
location |
|
1st |
June 16, 2009 |
Dmitry Medvedev (Russia) |
BRIC |
Yekaterinburg |
|
2nd |
April 16, 2010 |
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Brazil) |
BRIC |
Brasilia |
|
3rd |
April 14, 2011 |
Hu Jintao (China) |
BRICS |
Sanya |
|
4th |
March 29, 2012 |
Manmohan Singh (India) |
BRICS |
New Delhi |
The BRIC acronym was coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill, who was searching for a catchy way to encapsulate the broader shift in global economic growth towards emerging markets.
BRICS accounts for 26 per cent of the world’s landmass and 42 per cent of the global population and 40 percent of the global GDP ($18.486 trillion). Goldman Sachs predicts that “BRIC can become collectively bigger than the G-7 (the top industrial powers) by 2035″.
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