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The sixth BRICS summit concluded last Tuesday in Fortaleza, Brazil after passing a number of resolutions and declarations.
The Summit adopted the Fortaleza Declaration and Action Plan, the Agreement on the New Development Bank, the Treaty for the Establishment of a BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement and agreements among BRICS Development Banks and Export Credit Insurance Agencies. Click here to read the documents.
Jim O’Neill, worked for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. from 1995 until 2013. He was chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and the firm’s chief economist from 2001 to 2011. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was head of global research at Swiss Bank Corp.
O’Neill is the creator of the BRIC acronym, which was derived from his thesis that Brazil, Russia, India and China would dominate growth in emerging markets. South Africa joined in 2010 and is the “S” in the current title. O’Neill is a member of the boards of the Brussels-based policy-research centers Itinera Institute and Bruegel. He earned a degree in economics from Sheffield University in 1978 and a doctorate from the University of Surrey in 1982. He lives in London.
CCTV’s Phillip Yin spoke to O’Neill for his reaction to the developments of BRICS.
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