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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Predictions on the next world-system and the BRIC nations' sort of Joker-like role in its creation

In the Economist article Proftoft* linked to a few posts ago, it seemed to me that the author was suggesting that the "North" was in danger of switching places with the "South" in regards to economic vitality and Debt-to-GDP ratio, and that the BRIC nations had become midwives for the current mutated iteration of the traditional core-periphery relationship between the West and the "Rest".