Put a jaguar, a bear, a tiger and a panda together and you might get a good show but you won't get a quiet life.
The Bric grouping – Brazil, Russia, India and China – has become a shorthand for the rise of emerging markets in the global economy. And after a rather stellar decade, the Brics mainly had a good crisis from which they are now rapidly exiting.
Goldman Sachs, the financial group that invented the category, reckons that China may well become the world's largest economy outright before 2030. Collectively, the Bric economies could well surpass output in the Group of Seven wealthy nations – which have dominated the management of the global economy – by 2032.