New Centers of Power in the International Arena

... on the whole the country, with its great natural resources potential, namely diamonds, gold, uranium and coal, can achieve high rates of economic growth in the 21st century. This is evidenced, in particular, by South Africa’s accession to the BRICS group, which unites five promising and fast-growing economies that could account for more than half of the global GDP by the middle of the 21st century, as international economic analysts forecast. All four countries under analysis are BRICS members,...