Thick or Built as BRICS?

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Welcome new member South Africa into the BRIC club.

The four-nation group — Brazil, Russia, India and China — is a collection of what many economists see as the world’s most important emerging markets. Each has a gross domestic product well above $1 trillion and together they make up almost half the world’s population.

To match up with even the smallest BRIC country, Russia, South Africa would have to quadruple its economy.

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