BRICS caught up with Goldman Sachs growth forecast a decade early, driven by India-China’s 25-yr streak

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That forecast has proved right on the broad direction of change, but little else. Famously (some would say infamously), Goldman Sachs forecast that four emerging “BRICS” economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) would grow to eventually match and then overtake what at the time were the world’s six biggest economies, namely the US, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, and Italy (the G6). Continuing with last weekend’s quarter-century theme, it is instructive to look back at the long-term forecast that captured the world’s imagination early in the new century. At the macro level, Goldman had said that the BRICS economies would...