At their summit in South Africa today and tomorrow, leaders of the BRICS are expected to announce progress towards setting up a development bank and to outline a plan to pool some of their foreign reserves. But in reality the group is more of political than economic significance. Moreover, even from an economic point of view, the BRICS have lost some of their strength.
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