Wisdom Tree India turned out 21% gains last year, the best in the BRICs.
Incremental better news in the US simply overpowered the inflation downers in the BRICs.
Individual countries in the big four emerging markets, the BRICs, are doing even better.
Emerging markets, tracked by the EEM, are down 11% as the BRICs are breaking down.
By 2020, the BRICs are expected to account for nearly 50% of all global GDP growth.
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Despite long term growth fundamentals in the BRICs, this is still a global economy.
"Daughterly guilt, " already substantial across the BRICs, actually exceeds maternal guilt in India and China.
Because of this, some members of America's Congress look on the BRICs with trepidation.
Russia is now considered the odd one out of the BRICs and you can see why.
The BRICs are giving more through multilateral channels, moving away from their usual government-to-government help.
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In 2011, 8.7% of UK exports went to the Brics, compared with 6% to Ireland.
But Ireland did take a larger share in 2009: 7% compared with 6.6% for the Brics.
The BRICs and the original group of seven rich countries (G7) form natural blocks within the G20.
The world, including the BRICS at their meeting two weeks ago, are very much counting on US leadership.
It also called for stability of the dollar and euro, both being major reserve currencies in the BRICs.
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But there are other reasons why the BRICs might damage the global economic system, rather than buttress it.
The rest of the emerging markets category, whipsawed by runaway inflation in the BRICs, fell by 22 percent.
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Going forward, Goldman will continue to choose green investments carefully, just as they choose their investments in the BRICs.
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In the BRICs and other fast-growing developing countries the gap is already narrowing.
Together, the BRICS nations make up more than 40% of the world population and one-fifth of the global economy.
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All four of these guys liked the domestic consumption story in the BRICs.
At the moment, then, recovery in the BRICs is coinciding with recession in the developing world as a whole.
But as we are learning from the experience with the BRICS, not all emerging economies maintain their upward trajectory.
Kagan says that part of the problem is that people lump together America's challengers abroad as the Brics.
Partly, that the BRICs depend less on exports than do many emerging markets.
In terms of global trade, the BRICs currently account for around 12.4% of global exports, rising to 20.1% in 2015.
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So we set out to find information about the Brics' needs for foreign professionals and their policies to attract them.
In that context the BRICs and next 11 as engines of growth for our business become more and more important.
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And there are one or two signs that the benefits of growth in the BRICs are being felt farther afield.
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