EMERGING ECONOMIES
Brics members’ low investment in JSE points to limited economic ties
SA’s links with its fellow Brics members – Brazil, Russia, India and China – have grown exponentially since the country gained membership status in this association of leading emerging economies in 2010. At least that would appear to be the view of government officials and policy makers. But there is one area of conspicuous silence in the Brics agenda — the stock markets. If the rationale for the formation of the Brics is primarily economic coalition, as it was and is still being argued to be, what concrete evidence is there for growing economic ties? This is especially so for SA, which was a relative latecomer and is the smallest of the economies. Has confidence in SA filtered through to the private sectors of Brazil, Russia, India and China since Pretoria’s entry into the club? Paying attention to the private sector is an important metric not only for the purposes of measuring the Brics in economic terms (as originally envisioned by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill), but also a...
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