Jim O’Neill gave the world BRIC in 2001 and MINT in 2013. Both were investment classifications, not policy programmes, but from exercises in reading demographic scale, geographic position, and resource endowment as proxies for long-run growth potential. BRIC became BRICS, then a functioning intergovernmental institution with its own development bank, a $100 billion contingent reserve
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