In economics, BRIC (typically rendered as “the BRICs” or “the BRIC countries” or known as the “Big Four”) is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China that are deemed to all be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development.
Head of the BRIC Countries.
- Brazil
- President (head of state and government): Dilma Rousseff
- Russia
- President (head of state): Dmitry Medvedev
- Prime Minister (head of government): Vladimir Putin
- India
- President (head of state): Pratibha Patil
- Prime Minister (head of government): Manmohan Singh
- China
- President (head of state): Hu Jintao
- Premier (head of government): Wen Jiabao