BRIC BRIC In economics, BRIC is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development. It is typically rendered as "the BRICs" or "the BRIC countries" or "the BRIC economies" or alternatively as the "Big Four". A related acronym, BRICS, adds South Africa. There are arguments that Indonesia should be included into grouping, effectively turning it into BRIIC or BRIICS. Previously BRIC was coined by Jim O'Neill in 2001 as an acronym of four countries that were all deemed to be
BRIC closed down its BRIC fund after lost 88 percent of its asset value since 2010 and put the fund in emerging markets countries. Historically, Jim O'Neill who coined the term of BRIC was the former chief economist of Goldman Sachs. The head of emerging markets for Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Ruchir Sharma has released a book in 2012: "Breakout Nations" which mentioned that it is hard to sustain rapid growth for more than a decade. Based on a March 2011 "Forbes" report, the BRIC countries counted 301 billionaires among their combined populations, exceeding the number of billionaires in Europe, which