Friday, August 1, 2014

BRICS- Owning a bank invites responsibilities

.With  more nations touching higher growth trajectories, endemic economic blocs are being created with common goals ..BRICS , was founded for encouraging commercial, political and cultural cooperation between its member nations who represent  18 percent of the world economy.,in comparison to EU at  23 percent  Brics bank has now come into being like the ECB  for the EU. But the EU also had a  single monetary policy  along with individual  fiscal policies and thus over time , was plagued with both monetary imbalances and trade deficit disparities within.The BRICS  on date ,has no  shared monetary platform.
           The economic base within BRICS  remains varied; Brazil,Russia and South Africa are highly dependent on raw material  / energy exports while China and India are  largely manufacture and service centered. This sets up a nice closed loop for a healthy and progressive trade within its members. If  BRICS  does gel , the bloc's economic growth can be rapid. United they may well be in their frustration with an omnipotent dollar ,the world's reserve currency ,in reality each BRICS nation  has prime bilateral relations with the United States ! And more importantly,each is entangled  as much, in the resultant global politics as  global economic concerns. There is need for caution. 
       Now that BRICS has a  central bank  it may tempt the Bloc  to  position itself  far too soon as an alternative to the ollar driven trade and bring into the equation the hitherto dormant monetary part of BRICS operations .An early  temptation  to go in for a common trading currency would  tilt the scale  in favour of China  whose economy is not  transparent enough  to merit the tag of a stable tender either for for  sectoral  or global transactions , For the present ,Brics Bank must be seen only as a useful but limited tool for combined prosperity and no further.

Pub Fin Express Aug 2

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