Article: BRICS countries as new growth poles of the global digital economy Journal: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (IJEPEE) 2025 Vol.21 No.1 pp.21 - 38 Abstract: The purpose of the study is to identify the digital economy self-development potential of the BRICS countries, which is necessary for them to become the growth poles of the global economic system. The authors have adapted the concept of 'self-development potential' to the research of the digital economy. The article offers the author's methodology for assessing the digital economy self-development potential based on the use of the method of integral estimates. The calculation of complex integral indicator of the digital economy self-development potential in each of the BRICS countries has allowed the authors to identify countries that have an opportunity to become growth poles in the global economy (China and Russia), as well as to determine the outsider countries (Brazil, India and South Africa). The authors justified the need to differentiate the state policy in relation to the growth poles and outsider countries. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: BRICS countries as new growth poles of the global digital economy

Authors: Evgeniya K. Karpunina; Raisa L. Agabekyan; Igor V. Petrov; Elena A. Gorlova; Tatyana G. Sobolevskaya

Addresses: Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin, Tambov, 392000, Russia ' Academy of Marketing and Social-Information Technologies (IMSIT), Krasnodar, 353905, Russia ' I.T. Trubilin Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia : ' I.T. Trubilin Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia : ' Moscow Institute of Modern Academic Education (МISAO), Moscow, Tekstilshchikov Street 7, 109129, Russia

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to identify the digital economy self-development potential of the BRICS countries, which is necessary for them to become the growth poles of the global economic system. The authors have adapted the concept of 'self-development potential' to the research of the digital economy. The article offers the author's methodology for assessing the digital economy self-development potential based on the use of the method of integral estimates. The calculation of complex integral indicator of the digital economy self-development potential in each of the BRICS countries has allowed the authors to identify countries that have an opportunity to become growth poles in the global economy (China and Russia), as well as to determine the outsider countries (Brazil, India and South Africa). The authors justified the need to differentiate the state policy in relation to the growth poles and outsider countries.

Keywords: digital economy; BRICS countries; emerging economies; digital economy self-development potential; developed countries; growth poles; advanced development; state policy; productivity; differentiated policy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEPEE.2025.145413

International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 2025 Vol.21 No.1, pp.21 - 38

Received: 02 Sep 2020
Accepted: 14 Dec 2020
Published online: 01 Apr 2025 *

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