Premium from the FT – BRICS creator Jim O’Neill slams ‘ridiculous’ idea for a common currency

Premium from the FT – BRICS creator Jim O’Neill slams ‘ridiculous’ idea for a common currency

O’Neill said creating a common currency for the five strongly diverging economies would be unfeasible.
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By Arjun Neil Alim in London and Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg

The former Goldman Sachs economist who coined the Brics acronym has dismissed as "ridiculous" the notion that the group of emerging nations might develop its own currency, as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa prepare to discuss whether to expand the bloc.

Ahead of the group's 15th summit next week, Lord Jim O'Neill told the Financial Times that the Brics had "never achieved anything since they first started meeting", eight years after he created the phrase in a 2001 research note he wrote as the bank's chief economist.

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