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European Journal of Alternative Education Studies ISSN: 2501-5915 ISSN-L: 2501-5915 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 2 │ Issue 1 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1136124 AN ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF TURKEY AND BRICS COUNTRIES Ömer Yilmazi Gaziantep University, Nizip Vocational High School, Gaziantep, Turkey Abstract: It is seen that Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are the countries that attract attention with the economic developments recently in the world economy. These countries have surpassed the performance of many developed countries' economies and these countries are referred to as BRICS countries in the world economy. The main reason why these countries are referred to as a group is that they must have a young and growing population, have a chance of earning a high growth opportunity because they can earn direct foreign investment in the country economy, cheap labor and consequently low production costs. Judging from the forecasts of the future of the world economy, until the 2050s, BRICS countries will play an active role in the world economy, also known as the G-6, one of the world's largest economies of the United States, Italy, France; it is argued that the nation will have more than one national income than its national income. Made this first part of the BRICS countries and Turkey's economy will be assessed in terms of macroeconomic indicators studies will be compared later with the BRICS countries in that part of Turkey's economic indicators. A general evaluation will be made in the conclusion part. Keywords: BRICS, macroeconomics, G6, production costs 1. Introduction At the end of the 1990s and beginning in the early 2000s, Brazil, Russia, India, and China, which briefly referred to themselves as the BRIC, began to be regarded as very rapidly developing and emerging markets (O'Neill, 2001: 1-16). In the following Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 152 Ömer Yilmaz AN ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF TURKEY AND BRICS COUNTRIES process, in addition to these countries, the Republic of South Africa was added in February 2011 and the name of this union was changed to BRICS. According to World Bank statistics, it is seen that BRICS countries have a population of more than 40% of the world population and cover about one-fourth of the world's face. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have gained a strong economic power together. Foreign direct investment is considered as an active factor for economic development and is seen as an important factor for market requirements, competitiveness and development of emerging economies. Given these conditions, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have to increase foreign direct investments to reach the levels of developed economies (Nistor, 2015: 981-985). Goldman Sachs' 2050 estimates of many studies on BRICS countries have a strong forecast that the world's largest economy will be BRICS countries. BRICS countries are less affected than other rapidly growing countries and the G-7 countries, especially from the global financial crisis of 2008, and they have seen very different policies and strategies from other countries. But another important point is that the sectors and sources that make up the economic growth of BRICS countries are very different from each other. For example, in the growth of China, exports and labor, domestic demand and services in the growth of India, agricultural products and goods exports in the growth of Brazil, the rapid increase in the prices of energy and natural resources in the world market in the growth of Russia, it has a wealth of raw materials. If these five countries are rapidly growing in various sectors, both in their own regions and in the world economy, this group is more important (Özsoylu and Algan, 2011:1-3). According to the BRICS thesis, there are some similarities and some differences between these four economies. From the BRICS countries, the development strategy of China and India is to produce and export many industrial goods, from textiles to small household appliances, from kitchenware to electronic equipment; Brazil and Russia are following a strategy based on exports and it is seen that they are rich in natural resources and the world's main industrial exporters are exporters. Finally, Brazil and Russia have experienced and experienced financial crises. At the same time, these countries have borrowed from IMF funds and have followed structural adjustment programs in this framework. The wage paid in China and India seems to be quite low compared to the wages in the western countries. For this reason, many industrial investors in the US and Europe are directing their investments to these countries and production is seen to be realized in these countries. Brazilian soybean and iron ore, and Russia is a natural gas and oil exporter. China and India use exports of Russia and Brazil (importing raw materials) for industrial production. Therefore, the BRIC thesis is European Journal of Alternative Education Studies - Volume 2 │ Issue 1 │ 2017 153 Ömer Yilmaz AN ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF TURKEY AND BRICS COUNTRIES based on the idea that if these countries take their unions further, they will all join together as one of the world's most advanced economies (Karakurt, 2016: 194) For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejae/article/view/1351 European Journal of Alternative Education Studies - Volume 2 │ Issue 1 │ 2017 154