The question then is, does BRICS still matter and should it occupy so much of our attention? BRICS account for about two-thirds of emerging market GDP. The World Bank has estimated that in the event that growth in BRICS economies fell one percentage point below  5  Whitman Lecture, What Lies Ahead for the Global Economy, A BRICS Perspective, October 2014.
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