Jim O\`Neill, one of the most influential economists today, shares his insights on how and why he developed one of the most compelling economic concepts of our time in The Growth Map.   \`O\`Neill has redefined how investors and Western business leaders see the world. This book tells the unlikely story of how O\`Neill developed this path-breaking idea . . . lively, powerful and highly accessible\` Gillian Tett, Financial Times Ten years ago, Jim O\`Neill predicted that globalization would help Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) - busy, ambitious countries full of raw materials - overtake the largest Western economies. With all four BRIC nations set to do just that, no other idea has proved as significant for the new century. But these changes have provoked business and political uncertainty and in The Growth Map O\`Neill examines what is coming next. Can the BRICs sustain their exceptional growth? Which nations will come next? And what, for all of us, does the future hold?