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Countries to watch

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Countries to watch

  Indian children try to stop a tree from being cut down in Mumbai. BRIC countries are enjoying fast economic growth. But there is also rising pressure on natural resources. REUTERS

  BETWEEN the 1960s and the 1990s, the economies of South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan were called the Four Asian Tigers. They took the world by storm because of their high rates of economic growth.

  Now the world is looking at another group of economies, called the BRICs. Earlier this month the foreign ministers (外交部长) of Brazil, Russia, India and China met in Russia. They talked about working together on a series of issues (问题), including the lack (缺乏) of food in the world today, energy and climate change.

  The BRIC countries are the biggest centers of economic growth. They have more than half the planet""s population and they will play a much bigger role in world affairs (事务), said Russian official Boris Malakhov.

  The name, BRIC was first used by Goldman Sachs, the world""s largest investment (投资) bank.In the bank""s 2003 report, Goldman Sachs said that by 2050 these four economies will have moved past those of the US, France, Germany, the UK, Japan and Italy.

  According to the report, the four countries can work well with each other. China and India are strong industrial (工业的) countries and good at selling services. Brazil and Russia are rich in natural resources (资源), such as oil and minerals (矿产). They could act as major raw material (原材料) suppliers (供应商) to the first two.

  For these four nations to work together would not only be good for them but for the whole world, said China""s Foreign Minister (外交部长) Yang Jiechi. In 2009 foreign ministers from the four countries will have their next meeting in India.

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  BRICs由巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国四个国家英文单词的首字母拼合而成(Brazil, Russia, India, China),与bricks (砖) 读音完全一样,所以被称为金砖四国。

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