BRICS

Bloomberg Global Banks ‘Quietly’ Ask BRICs to Subsidize Greek Aid With $27.6 Billion

9/16/2011 7:41:03 AM GMT
A group that represents the world’s biggest banks is trying to persuade Brazil, Russia, India, China and others to lend 20 billion euros ($27.6 billion) to supplement a debt refinancing package for Greece.

Bloomberg Banks ‘Quietly’ Lobby BRICs for Greece Aid

9/16/2011 7:41:03 AM GMT
A group that represents the world’s biggest banks is trying to persuade Brazil, Russia, India, China and others to lend 20 billion euros ($27.6 billion) to supplement a debt refinancing package for Greece.

Xinhua Chinese vice premier vows deeper cooperation with BRICS in health sector

7/11/2011 9:32:05 AM GMT
Vice Premier Li Keqiang said that China will deepen its cooperation with other BRICS countries in a letter of congratulations written to commemorate the first BRICS Health Ministers Meeting, which was held in Beijing on Monday.

AFP BRICS vow to improve access to low-cost medicine

7/11/2011 8:15:04 AM GMT
The BRICS group of emerging countries on Monday vowed to improve access to low-cost and high-quality medicine -- and called on developed nations to shoulder responsibility in helping the poor.

AP BRICS countries vow to help poor nations in health

7/11/2011 5:12:04 AM GMT
The world's top emerging countries banded together Monday to help fight diseases in the poorest countries, pledging to transfer technologies to the developing world to help supply cheap and effective drugs.

AP BRICS urge public health funding in poor countries

7/11/2011 3:56:03 AM GMT
Health ministers from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have pledged to explore and promote technology transfers to poor countries to help improve their public health systems.

Economist The IMF succession: Disunity among the BRICs

6/8/2011 11:06:04 AM GMT
CHRISTINE LAGARDE is continuing her charm offensive to win support from the major emerging-market economies for her candidacy to lead the IMF. After meeting the Indian prime minister and finance minister in New Delhi on Tuesday, she has spent Wednesday in Beijing. But the governments of the so-called BRIC countries have refused to endorse Ms Lagarde, in protest over the unwritten convention that a European leads the IMF. Yet no BRIC government has backed Ms Lagarde’s emerging-market rival, Agustin Carstens, the governor of Mexico's central bank, either.    This has led many to pose the question: why aren’t BRIC governments rallying behind a candidate of their own? The question is misguided. The BRIC acronym is now used so widely it is easy to forget it was coined to describe economies with similar structural features, not similar interests. BRIC countries are similar in their size and in their position on the outside of the global economic order, looking in. This does not mean they have similar interests in the IMF succession race. First there’s the politics. Why use their leverage now to back a Mexican candidate, when they could secure a more favourable position for one of their own. China could push for Zhu Min, the Fund’s de-facto deputy managing director, to formally secure the position. Brazil wants a Latin American economist back on the leadership team. ...

Xinhua BRICS health ministers warm up from Beijing meeting

5/17/2011 5:34:02 PM GMT
Health Ministers from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met here on Tuesday, to prepare for the BRICS Health Ministerial Meeting which is to be held in Beijing on July 11, 2011.

Xinhua Hu's speeches at BRICS summit, Boao Forum attract wide attention

4/20/2011 1:28:05 AM GMT
The recent speeches made by Chinese President Hu Jintao at the BRICS Leaders Meeting and Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) have garnered a lot of attention from the international community.

New York Times A Gathering of BRICS

4/20/2011 12:05:03 AM GMT
The other BRICS might pause to consider their relationship with China.

Xinhua Foreign media speak highly of BRICS summit

4/17/2011 3:43:00 AM GMT
Foreign media have recently spoken highly of a summit grouping leaders of BRICS countries - China, Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa, saying it has revealed the bloc's solidarity and increasing influence.

Xinhua China's Q1 foreign trade with other BRICS nations surges

4/14/2011 8:43:01 PM GMT
China's top customs authority announced Friday that the country's foreign trade with the other four BRICS nations surged by 45.8 percent to reach 59.9 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of this year.

WSJ Brics Group Warns on Capital Flows

4/14/2011 6:15:01 PM GMT
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, collectively known as Brics, issued a joint statement calling for greater supervision of commodity markets and international capital flows.

CNN Leaders at BRICS Summit speak out against airstrikes in Libya

4/14/2011 5:02:00 PM GMT
A leadership summit of five emerging economic powers took a decidedly political turn on Thursday, going beyond customary economic issues with a joint declaration against Western-led airstrikes in Libya and urging a peaceful solution to the conflict.

Washington Post China, other developing BRICS nations seek change in global economic order

4/14/2011 11:20:00 AM GMT
Brazil, Russia, India, China and newcomer South Africa, collectively known by the acronym BRICS, used their third summit meeting here on this southern Chinese resort island to call for a restructuring of the World War II-era global financial system and an eventual end to the long reign of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.