国际英语新闻:BRICS Considering Giving Financial Help to Developed Economies

In 2008, the Group of 20 leading industrialized and developing economies worked to help ease the global financial crisis.  BRICS leaders say they are looking for a similar effort to emerge in the coming weeks.  G-20 finance leaders will meet here in Washington this week during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank, and the European debt crisis is expected to be a major topic of discussion.  G-20 leaders are also scheduled to next month in Paris.

The People's Bank of China's Zhou Xiaochuan says that as emerging countries look to help advanced economies, they need to ensure that their own economic growth continues.  One way of doing that, he says, is by ensuring that BRICS countries move away from reliance on exports for economic growth.

"We need to do a good policy making job in our own countries [in] each BRICS country," he said. "Actually, BRICS countries represent quite a big share of the global economy.  In today's crisis period, the internal demand of each country, I think, is important."

According to the International Monetary Fund, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will account for 60 percent of the world's global economic growth by 2014.

In their communique, the BRICS nations welcomed steps taken by the United States and the European Union to address financial tensions.  They said it is critical for advanced economies to adopt responsible economic and financial policies to promote growth, create jobs and reduce trade imbalances.

The BRICS states also stressed that as they do more to contribute to the global economy, they should have more of a say in what global financial institutions do.  In their statement, they voiced concern over the slow pace of quota and governance reforms that the IMF approved last year.

In 2010, the 187 member nations of the IMF agreed to shift more voting rights to emerging economies like China, giving them a bigger say in its decision making process.