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March 2012

Falling BRIC — India’s macro numbers are harming its global image.

By Tarunkumar Singhal, Raman Jokhakar, Chartered Accountants
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It has been more than ten years since the term ‘Bric’ was coined. The Bric nations — Brazil, Russia, India and China — were supposed to be the engines of global growth, the new poles of the world economy as Europe and North America slipped slowly into twilight. Yet Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs, the man leading the team that coined the phrase in 2001, has been quoted as saying that “there are important structural issues about all four, and as we go into the 10-year anniversary, in some ways India is the most disappointing”.

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