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This chapter explores discourses of crisis recovery scenarios advanced during the North Atlantic financial crisis (NAFC) and the selection of some of these for practical action. There is no lack of ‘crisis-recovery’ imaginaries (e.g. austerity measures, stimulus packages, debt reliefs etc.; see Chapter 11) and some of them are selected and pushed forward by national state-centred interest coalitions. Instead of examining imaginaries at this level, however, this chapter redirects attention to an imaginary that is being repeated, selected and promoted by (trans-) national and/ or (inter-) governmental forces as another road to recovery. Specifically, it focuses on how some major actors including economists in investment banks, economic strategists, politicians, officials in international organizations/ intergovernmental agencies, think tank researchers and business journalists have (re)imagined the role of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies as drivers of recovery in the context of the North Atlantic Financial Crisis.