CAMBRIDGE – In 2001, Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill famously coined the term BRIC to characterize the world’s four largest developing economies – Brazil, Russia, India, and China. But, more than a decade later, just about the only thing that these countries have in common is that they are the only economies ranked among the world’s 15 largest (adjusted for purchasing power) that are not members of the OECD.
美国剑桥—2001年，高盛的吉姆·奥尼尔（Jim O’Neil）提出了著名的金砖四国（BRIC）一词来形容世界上最大的四个发展中经济体——巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国。但是，十多年以后，这四个国家的唯一共同点是它们是仅有的位列世界前15大经济体（经购买力平价调整）但又不属于经合组织成员的国家。