I was recently forwarded a paper written by Goldman Sachs reseachers in October 2003 relating to the potential of the BRIC emerging economies. I have written on emerging market potential outperformance many times (and here, and here too) before.The paper projects that, given favorable growth regimes in those countries, that these economies will be one-half the size of the G6 by 2025, and larger than them, as measured in USD, by 2040. In fact, the world's largest economy in 2041 is predicted to be China.
The paper has obvious implications for any forward-looking investor. They also suggest that one expectation is that average currency appreciation for BRIC nations will be by about 2.5% annually for these currencies over the next 45 years. That's a pretty good tailwind alone, for investment results.
As the paper points out, things could obviously go wrong over that time period, but these results have reasonable potential to occur. Under the assumptions laid out in the paper (and with their model checked against history in other nations), it suggest that the largest economies in 2050 will be as follows:
- China
- US
- India
- Japan
- Brazil
- Russia
What also brought this issue into sharp relief for me, again, was a recent Economist magazine special on the world economy, that focussed on the emerging economies of the world. To an investor that wants growth at a reasonable price, these economies are growing their GDPs over the past five years at 5.6% annually, versus 1.9% for the developed world.
A forward-looking investor can't afford to ignore these reasonably-priced markets, and excellent growth prospects going forward. Are you such an investor?
JW
The Confused Capitalist
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