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Brazil 's Economy Will Overtake That Of Italy

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O’Neil (2001) introduced the term BRIC where this grouping acronym was standing for Brazil, Russia,
India and China respectively (hereafter BRIC) . By the end of 2000 these countries faced an impressive increase in equity markets: Brazil’s increased by 369%, India’s by 499%, Russia’s by 630% and China’s by 201% using the A-share market. But why these four countries are so important? Simply because by the end of 2000 the gross domestic product (gdp in US$) in both Purchase Power Parity terms (PPP) and current prices of BRIC countries accounted for 23.3% and 8% of the world’s total gdp respectively.
According to Goldman Sachs in 40 years time the BRICs as a whole could be larger than G6 in US$ terms. In the same report it is stated that Brazil’s economy will overtake that of Italy by 2025; France by 2031 and Germany and UK by 2036. In addition Brazilian gdp of about US$ 2.253 trillion in 2012
(according to World Bank), is the world’s seventh wealthiest economy and the largest country in area and population in Latin America. In the last 100 years from a destitute and far from being a sophisticated economy became one of the largest and richest emerging markets hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the
Olympic Games in 2016, events that demanded huge amounts of investments among others in transport infrastructure and social development. In this paper we will attempt to explain this transition (from a poor to a prosperous economy) by investigating the role of …nancial development,

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