When Jim O’Neill coined the acronym Bric in 2002, he brilliantly identified the main force that would drive global economic growth for the next decade. These four economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – had little in common, except that they had the scale and growth potential to transform the growth rate of global GDP as never before. For many years, their startling performance was the main manifestation of the phenomenon that became known as “globalisation”.
2002年,當(dāng)吉姆?奧尼爾(Jim O'Neill)利用巴西、俄羅斯、印度和中國這4個國家的首字母縮寫發(fā)明“金磚四國”(Bric)一詞的時候,他出色地找到了將在今后十年推動全球經(jīng)濟發(fā)展的主要力量。這4個國家沒啥共同之處——除了它們都有讓全球GDP增速達(dá)到空前水平的規(guī)模和增長潛力。許多年來,它們令人吃驚的高增長是逐漸被人們了解的“全球化”現(xiàn)象的主要表現(xiàn)。