2011 BRICS Summit

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Editor's notes:

The BRICS Summit, the third of its kind, will be held on April 14 in Sanya, a coastal city of China's Hainan Province. The summit will focus on global financial reforms, the international economic and financial situation, multi-polarity of global systems, development issues and co-operation among the member countries.



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About BRICS  

BRICS is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development.

The term of BRIC was first coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neil in 2001 to group four fast-growing economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. South Africa was invited to join the grouping in late 2010.

Leaders to attend the summit

Hu Jintao, President of China 

 Dmitri Medvedev, President of Russia

 Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

 Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil

 Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa



Key issues   

Economic development

BRICS hope to build up new era of prosperity

Emerging economies - pioneers of global economy

BRICS to cccount for half of world GDP by 2030

Cooperation

Sino-Indian cooperation in the BRICS context

Growing ODI boosts regional cooperation

Russian WTO entry gains support

Likely shape of China-South Africa cooperation in BRICS

BRICS summit to bring new opportunities for cooperation

◆ Financial reform

BRICS nations should expand local currency settlement

China's role   

As the good times roll from East to West

 

 

 

BRICs in the Global Economy, 1991–2015

 

1991–94

2000–04

2005–09

2015

 (In percent of world total; period average)

Population

BRICs

44.7

43.6

42.8

41.8

Other EMEs

23.1

23.2

23.6

23.9

United States

4.8

4.7

4.6

4.5

Euro Area

5.6

5.1

4.9

4.6

GDP

BRICs

5.8

8.5

13.1

21.6

Other EMEs

10.6

10.8

13.3

15.4

United States

26.2

30.6

25.6

22

Euro Area

24.8

21.3

22

16.6

Exports

BRICs

4.2

7.9

12.4

20.1

Other EMEs

13

15.8

18.6

18.3

United States

13.3

12

9.7

9.6

Euro Area

34.7

30.9

29.1

23

Imports

BRICs

4

7

10.5

18.8

Other EMEs

14.4

14.8

17.2

18

United States

14.6

17.1

14.1

12.3

Euro Area

34

29.5

28.5

21.9

Sources: IMF and World Economic Outlook, October 2010.


China: FDI Flows to Low-Income Countries

 

2003

2004

2005

2007

2008

2009

(In percent of total Chinese FDI)

Total

7.1

14.5

5.1

18.7

39.4

11.5

Sub-Saharan Africa

4.1

5.3

2.3

10.2

33

5.2

of which LICs

2.8

4.4

1.6

6

3.6

4.6

Latin America

0.3

0

0

0.5

0.1

0

Asia

2.5

3.4

1.3

6.4

5.5

5.9

Middle East

0.2

5.7

1.4

1.5

0.9

0.4

Source : Statistical Bulletin of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment .

 


 

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