This time, armed with a “feasibility study” put together by the five BRICS finance ministers, some progress may at last be made. With trade, both among the BRICS countries and between the BRICS and the rest of Africa, expected to increase from roughly $340 billion in 2012 to more than $500 billion in 2015, there is also much to discuss on the commercial front.
此外，峰会日程的核心议题，即成立“金砖国家开发银行”在前几次峰会中没有形成任何结果。这一次，五国财政部长因“可行性研究”而走到了一起，或许最终能够取得一些进展。金砖国家之间及它们与非洲其他国家之间的贸易额预计将从2012年的约3400亿美元增至2015年的5000亿美元，因此在商业领域也有很多内容有待讨论。