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Lord O'Neill: Why I coined the phrase 'Bric countries'

In 2001 a British economist at a US investment bank, Jim O'Neill, coined a term to encourage investment in four dynamic, emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China.

The ±«Óãtv's Talking Business programme asked Lord O'Neill if - 15 years on - those countries had grown as he had expected.

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