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Just to give you a sense of the size of the economies involved, we can look at the GDP of

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the BRICS countries versus the G7, for example. The BRICS countries, 35% of GDP, G7 countries,

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only 29%. So the BRICS countries have a larger combined GDP than the G7 countries. Okay,

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so this is significant. If we put that in dollar figures, we're talking about, you know,

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65 trillion versus 55 trillion. And in terms of growth forecasts, how is this going to

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change over time? The BRICS are expected to grow at 3.6% annually instead of 1%. Now, these are just

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forecasts. Obviously, these numbers could be wrong. But even if they're wrong by a lot,

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that still implies that the BRICS are probably going to grow faster than the G7 countries.

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So this is a major, major trend, and it's already swinging in favor of the BRICS countries.