{"id":8387,"date":"2013-03-28T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2013-03-28T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:20:19","slug":"the-country-that-needs-to-be-eliminated-from-the-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-country-that-needs-to-be-eliminated-from-the-brics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Country That Needs To Be Eliminated From The BRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032813_1116_TheCountryT1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BRICS\">BRICS<\/a> is an odd amalgamation of countries. For the most part it makes sense why four of the five BRICS economies are expected to dominate the future, but there&#8217;s one country that is dissimilar from the rest and quite obviously shouldn&#8217;t be included. Joshua Keating is talking, of course, about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil. The other countries have seen incredible rates of growth. Brazil, on the other hand, has at times seen growth rates of under 2%.<\/li>\n<li>Russia. It once had a lot of promise but corruption and bureaucracy are suffocating the country&#8217;s infrastructure and economy.<\/li>\n<li>India. It&#8217;s perennially on the verge of a balance of payments crisis and doesn&#8217;t seem to be serious about attracting the foreign investment it so desperately needs to ensure future growth. To say nothing of the corruption.<\/li>\n<li>China. Thanks to the one-child policy population growth is going to start falling soon and that&#8217;ll drastically reduce its growth potential in the coming future.<\/li>\n<li>South Africa. It has taken a turn towards illiberalism and appears to have given up on its post-Apartheid ideals of equality and justice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about some of the countries that should replace the one outlier in BRICS, more about why each of the countries don&#8217;t belong, and why the disparity among the BRICS isn&#8217;t all that surprising compared to other international groupings over <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/03\/27\/the_case_for_kicking_all_the_countries_out_of_the_brics\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/03\/27\/the_case_for_kicking_all_the_countries_out_of_the_brics\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRICS is an odd amalgamation of countries. For the most part it makes sense why four of the five BRICS economies are expected to dominate the future, but there&#8217;s one country that is dissimilar from the rest and quite obviously shouldn&#8217;t be included. Joshua Keating is talking, of course, about: Brazil. The other countries have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032813_1116_TheCountryT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}