2. Introduction
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I BRICS is an International Political Organization Of Leading Emerging Economies.
Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, coined the BRI C concept in 2001.
1st inaugural Summit took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia on June 16, 2009 by 4 countries namely Brazil,
Russia, India and China.
With the entrance of South Africa , at the 3rd BRIC's Summit, in April 2011, the BRI C became BRI
CS, with capital "S".
South Africa stands at a unique position to influence African economic growth and investment.
Currently the forum is working on building partnerships and collaborating with member state institutions.
3. BRICS Focus on
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New Development Bank is form ed on July
Private Sector & Prevention of Corruption 2014
Investmen t Landscape
Business
Innovation in buildin g Infrastructure
Competitiveness
Trade
Governance & Leadership
Healthcare
Science & Technology
Poverty
4. Strengths of BRICS
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BRICS contributes to around 42 °/o of the worlds population .
Have 25.9 o/o the worlds total geographic area.
By 2050 , BRICS countries expected to accounts for over 42% of the
world 's population and 60°/o of global GDP.
5. BRICS Summit
Summit Date Host Country Host Leader
1st 16 June 2009 RUSSIA Drnitry Medvedev
2nd 15 April 2010 BRAZIL Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
3 rd 14 April 20 11 CHINA Hu Jintao
4th 29 March 2012 INDIA Manmohan Singh
5th 26-27 March 2013 SOUTH AFRICA Jacob Zuma
Gth 14- 16 July 2014 BRAZIL Dilma Rousseff
y th 8-9 July 2015 RUSSIA Vladirnir Putin
8th 15- 16 October 2016 INDIA Narendra Modi
9 th 3-5 Septem ber 2017 CHINA Xi Jinping
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7. Brazil
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Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world by both land area and
population .
10th fastest growin g economies in the last centuries.
Extremely rich in resources such as coffee , sugarcane , crude oil and
iron etc.
Focus on equitable development has resulted in significant pove rty
reduction.
Textiles, chemicals , iron ore , steel and motor vehicles industries.
Michel Temer
8. Russia
Vladimir Putin
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Russia has capability in high -technology sectors
- Accounts for aroun d 20% of the world's oil and gas reserves .
=Fall in the num ber of people living below the poverty line.
=Consum er market of over 140 million people.
_ 68°
/o of people comes unde r middle income group.
Highly educated workforce .
- Third largest exporter of steel and aluminium
9. India
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Narendra Modi
=1.2 billion people
_ 2nd largest labour force
- Holds second place followed by China in
BRICS
=Democratic country.
Broad k nowledge economy.
10. China
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18Th fastest growing economy.
Third largest country in land size.
Biggest of all BRIC nations GDP wise.
13% of people comes und er midd le income group..
Holds more than $3 trillion forex reserves.
Largest exporter/ importer for 32 and 34 countries
respectively.
Cheap labour work force
Xi Jinping
11. South Africa
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Jacob Zuma
= The South African economy is now the 23rd largest in the world.
_ Inflation is below 6.6% and falling.
- 25°/o of goods produced in South Africa are for export
= Richest in terms of its mine ral reserves.
12. New Development Bank
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New
Developmen
t Bank
1 M u l t i l a t e r a l Development Bank by the BRICS nations.
Officially established in 2015. 0
Formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank .
Head quarters - Shanghai, China
President - K.V. Karnath (1st President)
First regional office - Johannesburg, South Africa.
Aims to contribute to development plans established nationally through projects that are socially,
environment tally and economically sustainable.
Planning to give a priority to projects aimed at developing renewable energy sources.
13. - The name of the bank is believed to have been proposed by Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
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Govt. of
India
Govt. of Madhya
Pradesh
Water supply and
sanitation, rural
development
MP Water
(India)
$ 470 m
- Project covers more than
3,400 villages and will benefit
over 3 million rural population
Madhya
Pradesh
(India)
Govt. of
India
Govt. of Madhya
Pradesh
Upgrading major
district roads
$ 350 m
Canara
(India)
Canara
Bank( GOI)
Sub-projects
Renewable energy
(wind, solar etc)
$ 250 m
- About 1,500 km of MDRs
will be upgraded
- 500 MW renewable
energy
- Avoided 815,000 t
C02/ year
14. India and BRICS
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A brief discussion of the Doklam Standoff with China .
India -Russia signed deals worth Rs. 39,000 crores across multiple sectors.
Ind ia- Russia to carry out feasibility study for Nagpu r- Secundrabad passenger train.
Talks to speed u p work on setting up of BRICS institutions.
Role of China in su pporting Pakistan.
T
errorism
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Countries GDP 2017
Brazil 2,140.9 Bn 207,652,865 15,485 0.2% 92.6% 75.0
0.754
(high)
0.804
(very high)
0.624
(medium )
0.738
(high)
0.666
(medium)
Russia 1,560.7 Bn 143,964,513 27,466 1.1% 99.7% 70.5
I ndia 2,454.4 Bn 1,324,171,354 7,153 7.2% 72% 68.3
China 11,795.2 Bn 1,403,500,365 16,676 6.5% 96.4% 76.1
South
317.5 Bn Af
rica 56,015,473 13,409 1% 94.3% 62.9
Average 3,653.7 Bn 19,041 3,2" 939' 70.56
16. BRICS 2017
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I I It was the g th International BRICS summit .
n Took place on 3rd to Sth of September 20 17. 0
The summit was held in Xiamen , China .
0 Hosted by Xi JimPing , President of China.
LJ 5 guests - Egypt, Mexico , Thailand ,
Tajikistan and Guinea.
0 Theme of the Summit was "Stronger
Partnership for Brighter Future."
17. Declarations of BRICS 2017
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1 1 We strongly condemn terrorist attacks which results in death to innocent Afghan national.
LJ We suppor t the effort of Afghan National Defence and Security forces in fighting to terrorist
organisations.
I I We deplore all terrorist attacks worldwide including the attacks in BRI CS nations.
1 1 We also strongly deplore the nuclear test conducted by Democratic People' s Repu blic of Korea (North
Korea).
