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Conflict between the BRIC countries
Nov 14 2008, Celso Camargo

When the economist Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs Group, created the term BRIC to describe the four major emerging countries in the world, he was making only a series of projections for the future, imagining what it would feel like the world in 2050,...

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