• Its GDP surpassed that of the United Kingdom in 2012, temporarily making Brazil the world's sixth-largest economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brazil's economy, the world's ninth largest, contracted by 0.3 percent in the first quarter, marking the fifth straight quarter it shrank. (cnbc.com)
  • China is now the world's second-largest economy and some analysts predict it could become the largest within a few years. (bartleby.com)
  • It is the "best energy," according to its producers, but biogas from livestock waste still lacks an organized market that would allow it to take off and realize its potential in Brazil, the world's largest meat exporter. (ipsnews.net)
  • Total cases in Brazil, the world's second most affected country after the United States, have now risen to 2,074,860 while deaths totaled 78,772. (newtelegraphng.com)
  • The new global initiative brings together city leaders and other key stakeholders to convene and share best practices that will result in new solutions that address the challenges cities face at night and ensure the world's city economies can flourish around the clock. (mastercard.com)
  • Since 2010, five newly emerging economies collectively known as 'BRICS' (Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa) have caught the imagination, and scholarly attention, of political scientists, economists and development specialists. (bvsalud.org)
  • Whilst it may still be 'early days' for newly-emerging economies influence in global health to have matured, we argue that there is scope to further develop the concept of influence in global health, but also to better understand the ontology of groups of countries such as BRICS. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2022, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazilian nominal GDP was US$1.894 trillion, the country has a long history of being among the ten largest economies in the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • The huge market sell-offs, which also struck Brazil's currency and sovereign bonds, reflected fears that Bolsonaro may be preparing to intervene much more aggressively in the economy, with the aim of boosting his sagging polls ahead of the 2022 presidential election. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The expansion, led by strong growth of 21.6 percent in the key agricultural sector, marked a rebound for Latin America's biggest economy, which contracted by a revised 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022 -- the last under far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. (legit.ng)
  • Through the provision of an enabling knowledge-based economy and a resilient economic framework, Abu Dhabi continued to grow in leaps and bounds at the end of Q3 2022 across its various sectors thanks to the collaborative efforts of various government and private sector organisations. (zawya.com)
  • That's the latest outlook of the World Bank, a 189-country anti-poverty agency, which estimates that the international economy will expand just 2.1% in 2023 after growing 3.1% in 2022. (wivb.com)
  • In 2022, the Humans Rights Festival in Lund dedicated one session to screening and discussing the documentary "The Territory" , which follows the constant and tireless struggle of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people in the Brazilian Amazon to protect their territory against the expansion of deforestation in the region. (lu.se)
  • His right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro flew to Florida rather than hand over the presidential sash, so a group representing the Brazilian people-including a garbage collector, a 10-year-old boy, and an Indigenous leader-presented it to Lula instead. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In Brazil, COVID-19 had a negative impact in multiple sectors of the society during the administration of the president Jair Bolsonaro, elected from the coalition "Brazil Above Everything, God Above All", formed by the political parties PSL and PRTB. (scirp.org)
  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 19, 2021 (AP photo by Eraldo Peres). (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The administration under President Jair Bolsonaro pursues free-market and socially conservative reform policies, welcomed by the Brazilian business community. (sdcexec.com)
  • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that lockdown measures used to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus "kill" and have "suffocated" the country's economy. (newtelegraphng.com)
  • According to the World Economic Forum, Brazil was the top country in upward evolution of competitiveness in 2009, gaining eight positions among other countries, overcoming Russia for the first time, and partially closing the competitiveness gap with India and China among the BRICS economies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brazil is one of the five BRICS countries with Russia, India, research policies are applied. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although influence was predominantly framed by BRICS countries' material capability, there were examples of institutional and ideational influence - particularly from Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • The steel industry is a prime example of that, with Brazil being the 9th largest steel producer in 2018, and the 5th largest steel net exporter in 2018. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazilian creative economy, based on the concepts of necropolitics ( Mbembe, 2003 , 2018) and necrocapitalism ( Tyner, 2019 ). (scirp.org)
  • The main argument indicates, also in line with Pelbart (2018) and Medeiros (2019) , that the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced a political division between those who may or may not die, since some lives are considered disposable, especially those of creative professionals who have unstable and precarious conditions of work and are inserted in sec-tors seen as superfluous by the Brazilian state. (scirp.org)
  • In 2018, EUROPOL found that Brazil is both a leading target and source of attacks in Latin America, and further noted that 54% of digital security attacks reported in Brazil originate from within the country (EUROPOL, 2018) According to the LexisNexis Threatmetrix (2019), Brazil is the sixth country from which attacks originate globally (in volume). (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • Will the economy in America overheat in 2018? (bartleby.com)
  • Brazilians often refer to the city as Belém do Pará ("Belém of Pará") rather than just Belém , a reference to an earlier name for the city, Santa Maria de Belém do Grão Pará ("Saint Mary of Bethlehem of Great Pará"), and also to differentiate it from a number of other towns called Belém in Brazil, as well as the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank of Palestine. (wikipedia.org)
  • They will drive the economy into recession and ultimately failure. (mercopress.com)
  • The market should, of course, be doing very well in the run-up to the Olympics next year, but instead the economy has gone into recession as China's downturn impacts its previously buoyant commodity exports. (icis.com)
  • WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - July's jobs report is adding to optimism among economists that federal regulators can pull off a so-called soft landing, successfully bringing down inflation without tipping the economy into a recession. (wate.com)
  • In 2020, Forbes ranked Brazil as having the 7th largest number of billionaires in the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • de Jesus, D. (2020) Necropolitics and Necrocapitalism: The Impact of COVID-19 on Brazilian Creative Economy. (scirp.org)
  • His proposals for education did not stimulate the critical thinking and creativity of students and, in terms of innovation, the focus was predominantly on more traditional sectors of the economy (Jesus, 2019a, 2020) . (scirp.org)
  • He also made it clear Brazil would slowly start reopening (Phillips, 2020) . (scirp.org)
  • It is expected that the economy will rebound by about 4% in 2021, with private consumption and investments increasing 4.3% and 7% respectively. (sdcexec.com)
  • Now that the FIFA World Cup is no longer in town, economics and politics are back to the forefront in Brazil. (forbes.com)
  • Although it was the strongest quarter for the Brazilian economy in 15 years, barring the recoveries from the Covid-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis, "the details of the data don't make for such positive reading," said William Jackson, chief emerging markets economist at consulting firm Capital Economics. (legit.ng)
  • The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical policy solutions. (piie.com)
  • Otherwise, candidates such as Luis Inacio ``Lula'' da Silva of the socialist-oriented Workers' Party or nationalist Leonel Brizola, of the Democratic Labor Party, could win, and make radical changes in Brazil's economy and international relations. (csmonitor.com)
  • And Brazil's economy is weakening, according to Central Bank preliminary forecasts released on Thursday. (forbes.com)
  • With the World Cup just eight days away, high inflation and unemployment is once again challenging Brazil's economy, with the impact sure to influence this year's election campaigns. (mercopress.com)
  • Brazil's economy: Worrying weaknesses? (coface.at)
  • Brazil's economy grew a stronger-than-expected 1.9 percent in the first quarter, according to official figures released Thursday, welcome news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he looks to jump-start growth. (legit.ng)
  • The president's statement comes as Brazil's economy is expected to contract 6.4% this year, hit by the pandemic. (newtelegraphng.com)
  • For the President of the National Transportation Confederation (CNT), Clésio Andrade, the improvement in the government's ratings reflects the positive results in the country's economy. (brazzil.com)
  • Her impeachment would mark the end of 13 years of rule by the left-of-center Workers Party and leave Latin America's largest economy in the hands of the Michel Temer, Rousseff's conservative vice president and interim president. (cnbc.com)
  • That said, optimism in Latin America's largest economy has been brewing over the past three months since Temer took over. (cnbc.com)
  • Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil have walked off their jobs and taken to the streets in a nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public services in Latin America's biggest nation. (aljazeera.com)
  • America's economy is strong," Vice President Kamala Harris said. (wate.com)
  • In 2023, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazil has the 9th largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the world and has the 8th largest purchasing power parity in the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • The European economy contracted slightly at the end of last year and beginning of 2023, revised figures showed Thursday June 8, 2023, underlining the impact of the loss of Russian natural gas and high inflation on consumer spending. (wrbl.com)
  • Therefore, economists must compare economies around the world, such as Japan in order to see and understand how Australia's economy develops, performs and operates. (bartleby.com)
  • For starters, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended from her post May 12 amid corruption charges and is awaiting the final phase of her impeachment trial, which is expected to conclude Aug. 29. (cnbc.com)
  • Political and economic analysts say the unstable economy will continue to dog Sarney's lame duck government until the Nov. 15 election. (csmonitor.com)
  • Economic analysts, myself included, once thought that Brazil could reach a per capita income equal to Spain or Portugal by the early 2020s. (americasquarterly.org)
  • The economy shrank 1.7 percent in the third quarter - half a percent more than analysts had predicted. (euronews.com)
  • Analysts from credit rating firms to the World Bank agree Brazil needs to cut spending to help bring inflation under control, boost investments and thereby quicken growth. (mercopress.com)
  • Many analysts considered that Brazil, after the successful transition occurred in 2002, was prepared to become a modern democracy with a market economy. (cornell.edu)
  • In the central bank's latest economic survey, published Monday, analysts forecast the economy will grow by 1.26 percent this year, down from 2.9 percent last year. (legit.ng)
  • With inflation and high interest rates hitting households hard and forcing them to cut back on spending, some analysts say they expect the economy to contract further this year. (wrbl.com)
  • Its civil service wage bill, at 13% of GDP, tops the OECD charts and is almost twice as high as other Latin American economies. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Only Argentina and Venezuela will expand less than Brazil among the major Latin American economies this year, according to the latest IMF forecast. (mercopress.com)
  • The deindustrialisation of the major western economies over the past thirty years has stimulated the emergence of new economic powerhouses, the global influence of neo-liberalism, and the associated transformation of the capital-labour contract, of which have all radically altered and shaped employment across the industrial world (Saad-Filho, 2002). (bartleby.com)
  • [11] The city's international airport connects it to all other major Brazilian cities and some international destinations, and it is the third-busiest airport in Brazil . (wikipedia.org)
  • Major changes that have occurred in the global political economy and in international politics in recent years have had a profound impact on nations all around the world. (ciaonet.org)
  • In the early 1990's Brazil and China could be major economic competitors to western nickel producers. (cdc.gov)
  • Those countries represent the five standards about ethics (Declaration of Helsinki 1964, major emerging national economies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The old-new Brazilian president's first days in office suggest environmentalism will be central to both his foreign and domestic policy. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The specific impacts of the pandemic on the creative economy will be described in detail in the following sections, but it is important to say that many creative professionals lost their jobs due to the crisis because projects were either put on hold or cancelled, and clients rescinded their original plans and contracts with creative organisations. (scirp.org)
  • Soon the poor management of the economy showed its impacts. (cornell.edu)
  • Long lines of vehicles outside of gas stations reflect the acute shortage of diesel and gasoline in Cuba, which has had negative impacts on an economy that is highly dependent on fuel imports and has only a small proportion of renewable sources in its energy mix. (ipsnews.net)
  • Petrobras, the Brazilian oil and gas company, is the most valuable company in Latin America. (wikipedia.org)
  • I think the turning point was in 2014, when something that seemed insignificant led to the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Brazil,' he said, referring to Petrobras. (cnbc.com)
  • Investors stampeded out of Brazil on Monday, tanking its markets, after President Jair Bolsonaro's completely unexpected move to replace the head of the national oil company, Petrobras, with a retired general. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • To really give a clear picture of how the Agro business works in Brazil, it's important to say that each region and maybe each state and each municipality has different ways to produce," said Coser. (calcalistech.com)
  • The city has a unique status in Brazil, as it is an administrative division rather than a legal municipality like other cities in Brazil . (wikipedia.org)
  • It is of particular relevance to economies-in-transition and newly acceding countries to the WTO. (google.co.uk)
  • A survey by Pew Research Centre, revealed that for the first time since 2010, a majority of respondents said the economy was in bad shape. (mercopress.com)
  • Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), said, "Abu Dhabi's robust economy continues to prove its superiority driven by our leadership's clear vision, its ability to attract foreign direct investments and agile policies that enabled our economy to achieve the strongest growth in the region. (zawya.com)
  • Last week, Brazilian federal documents revealed that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Rousseff's predecessor, will stand trial for obstruction of justice. (cnbc.com)
  • Under Rousseff's leadership, Brazilian citizens have become increasingly unhappy with the direction the economy is taking. (mercopress.com)
  • PIIE's renowned scholars explore and analyze a broad range of economic topics and issues, including globalization, economic and growth prospects, finance, political economy, and trade and investment, as well as economic challenges facing individual regions and countries. (piie.com)
  • In this article, I review the history of landscape production in Florida, USA, to reveal the interrelated consequences of adjustments in political economy, administration, land use, and spatial representations for future landscape development. (lu.se)
  • Eduardo Giannetti, an economic adviser to presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), said Brazil needs to rein in spending and increase interest rates at the outset of the next government to help ease inflationary pressure. (mercopress.com)
  • Israeli agriculture businesses need to be aware of the needs of each region of Brazil, according to Gabriela Coser, economy adviser of The Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA). (calcalistech.com)
  • Brazil CNA's Economy Adviser, Gabriela Coser. (calcalistech.com)
  • Instead, the 2010s seem destined to go down as a lost decade for Brazil in many of the ways that matter most: productivity, living standards, health, education, and fairness. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Outside of agriculture, Brazil is losing the global productivity race. (americasquarterly.org)
  • It is important for the city to have economic activity for 24 hours as it increases productivity that boosts the economy, and in the long-term, will create more opportunities for all. (mastercard.com)
  • In addition to the economic impact, public cloud provides potential to improve productivity of the economy through availability of digital government services which drives a significant improvement in citizen experience within these markets. (bcg.com)
  • The governments of some of the most important creative cities in Brazil, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, followed Mandetta's recommendations. (scirp.org)
  • This World Leaders Forum program, titled 'Rio de Janeiro: from Ostracism to Protagonism' features an address by Sergio Cabral Filho, former Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (ciaonet.org)
  • The highlights this week: Lula begins his third term as Brazil 's president, Ecuador and China reach a trade agreement, and a detention in Bolivia yields disruptive protests. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Better schools : less child work : child work and education in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru / by María Cristina and Walter Alarcón Glasinovich. (who.int)
  • Coser was the keynote speaker at the webinar, 'Brazil: Land of Opportunities for Agritech start-ups,' where she spoke alongside representatives from the Pearl Cohen law firm from Israel and Pinheiro Neto law firm from Brazil, who organized the event. (calcalistech.com)
  • The senator from the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), currently trailing in second spot in the polls, last month distanced himself from earlier talk of unpopular austerity measures and urged Congress to extend minimum wage increases by at least the rate of inflation through to 2019. (mercopress.com)
  • Some investors are looking for bargains in beaten-down growth and tech stocks, betting they will shine as the Federal Reserve fights to slow the US economy and tame red-hot inflation. (ibtimes.com)
  • Nowadays, China become the second-largest economy at the global stage because of the fastest and perpetuated development in standard of living has made in a state with exceeding twenty percent (20%) of the globe's population. (bartleby.com)
  • Brazil is scored 5.26 - just behind China(6). (bvsalud.org)
  • Taking as backdrop themes that motivated the emergence of these fields in the Brazilian context, we seek to understand these selected concepts by exploring possibilities of interconnections. (bvsalud.org)
  • At the same time, unemployment rose to 7.1% in the first quarter of the year, a 0.9 percentage point drop on 2013's first quarter, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). (mercopress.com)
  • Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is accompanied by first lady Rosângela da Silva, his dog Resistencia, and Brazilian community representatives at Planalto Palace after his inauguration at the National Congress in Brasília on Jan. 1. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The index of positive evaluations of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's Administration rose from 38.2% in August to 41.3% in September, in the CNT/Sensus's 72nd round of polling. (brazzil.com)
  • Lula, who previously led the country through a commodities-driven boom from 2003 to 2010, took office again in January vowing to restore strong growth, fight resurgent poverty and "make Brazil happy again. (legit.ng)
  • From Portugal's colonization of Brazil (1500-1822) until the late 1930s, the Brazilian economy relied on the production of primary products for exports. (wikipedia.org)
  • With an estimated population of 1,499,641 people - or 2,491,052, considering its metropolitan area - it is the 11th most populous city in Brazil, as well as the 16th by economic relevance . (wikipedia.org)
  • What this poll clearly demonstrates is an improvement in the evaluation of President Lula's Administration, and this shows that the economy is responding. (brazzil.com)
  • This evaluation comes from the Minister of the Strategic Affairs Office (SAE) of the Presidency of the Republic, Marcelo Neri, in an exclusive interview with Conjuntura Econômica (The Brazilian Economy magazine) this month. (fgv.br)
  • In the Portuguese Empire, Brazil was a colony subjected to an imperial mercantile policy, which had three main large-scale economic production cycles - sugar, gold and from the early 19th century on, coffee. (wikipedia.org)
  • To start, the below three categories of reform could help move Brazilian society toward a consensus-driven economic model that delivers more for everyday people. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Many of these people represent social minorities, who are the main targets of the economic and social death policies that have their legacy in violent practices linked to Brazilian coloniza-tion and slavery. (scirp.org)
  • Atradius released a report this week analyzing the economic and political effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazil. (sdcexec.com)
  • Importantly, Brazil's Green Growth National Program aligns economic growth with sustainable development toward a green, low-carbon economy. (connectbrazil.com)
  • The impact of the economic downturn was not strong in Brazil. (cornell.edu)
  • In conclusion, the burden of disease and economic losses associated with smoking is high in Brazil, and tax increases are capable of averting deaths, illness, and costs to society. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • In order to further develop, Brazil needs to reconcile social and economic aspects. (fgv.br)
  • Can the Brazilian economic engine be repaired? (coface.at)
  • Since all economies are working to achieve a solution to the same economic problem, they have resulted in similar economic structures, although this was not always the case. (bartleby.com)
  • Brazil has an abundance of agricultural resources available and agriculture plays a very important role to the economy from the economic point of view. (bartleby.com)
  • Abu Dhabi has launched a number of initiatives in recent years as it focuses on diversifying its economy away from oil, promoting its non-oil economic activities, maintaining a prudent fiscal policy and progressively responding to the market needs and trends to upgrade the regulatory and legal frameworks to encourage foreign direct investment and promote its domestic investments. (zawya.com)
  • Important steps taken since the 1990s toward fiscal sustainability, as well as measures taken to liberalize and open the economy, have significantly boosted the country's competitiveness fundamentals, providing a better environment for private-sector development. (wikipedia.org)
  • From a colony focused on primary sector goods (sugar, gold and cotton), Brazil managed to create a diversified industrial base during the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • CERT.br, the private sector Brazilian National Computer Emergency Response Team (Centro de Estudos, Resposta e Tratamento de Incidentes de Segurança no Brasil) maintained by the executive branch of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação, NIC.br), received over 875 000 incident notifications in 2019, 78% of which originated from Brazil ( Figures 4.1 and 4.2 ). (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • Importantly, Brazil's electricity sector will increase efficiency to 10% while promoting the positive aspects of its low-carbon economy. (connectbrazil.com)
  • In all the sector analyses presented in this panorama (chemicals, steel, automotive, retail, agro-food) the notorious "Brazil cost" comes up again and again as a decisive disadvantage. (coface.at)
  • This growth is attributed to the strategic policies of prudent leadership, which have aimed at diversifying the economy, fostering private sector engagement, and investing in human capital. (zawya.com)
  • That is why some states refuse to accept digital economy, thereby keeping the integration of Blockchain into the real sector of economy in cold storage. (finchannel.com)
  • The reform was a notable political victory, but over the next 10 years the resulting legislation will deliver only one-half of the fiscal adjustment in terms of GDP that Brazil needs from pension reform. (americasquarterly.org)
  • With a total tax burden already at 36% of GDP, a widening budget deficit, and more than 80% of central government outlays earmarked by law, Brazil has little room for fiscal maneuvers. (mercopress.com)
  • Corruption and a corrupted way of doing politics, populist measures and relaxed fiscal and monetary policies showed that Brazil still has a long way to go before becoming a developed country. (cornell.edu)
  • U.S. ECONOMY U.S. ECONOMY CRISIS Sheryle Leonard Colorado Christian University 2 U.S. ECONOMY Abstract The state of the U.S. economy has an impact on every American. (bartleby.com)
  • The Brazilian Government Computer Security Incident Response Team (Centro de Tratamento e Resposta a Incidentes Cibernéticos de Governo, CTIR) also reports an increasing number of incidents ( Figure 4.3 ). (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • The economy started to recover in 2017, with a 1% growth in the first quarter, followed by a 0.3% growth in second quarter compared to the same period of the previous year. (wikipedia.org)
  • Will it catch up to what might have been, with GDP growth of 4-5% per year, or will it fall further behind the more advanced economies? (americasquarterly.org)
  • Mayukh Poddar, a portfolio manager of Altfest Personal Wealth Management, has increased exposure to growth stocks in healthcare such as Boston Scientific and mega-cap tech names like Microsoft in anticipation that the Fed's hawkish tilt will slow the economy, hurting value stocks. (ibtimes.com)
  • The growth stocks that are really getting hurt are the speculative names, but there are many companies out there that will do well regardless of the cycle in the economy," he said. (ibtimes.com)
  • Still, they say the steady growth is a positive sign for the health of the economy. (wate.com)
  • Growth in the economy has held up. (wate.com)
  • But the global economy has proved surprisingly resilient in the face of higher borrowing costs, and the World Bank predicts that growth will accelerate to 2.4% in 2024. (wivb.com)
  • Biologic features and molecular characterization of hemagglutinin, thymidine kinase, and vaccinia growth factor genes suggested a vaccinia virus infection, which strengthens the idea of the reemergence and circulation of vaccinia virus in Brazil. (cdc.gov)
  • When the COVID-19 pandemic started, Bolsonaro's public call for Brazil to get back to work and his efforts to undermine regional governments' shutdowns have appalled critics and sparked a political rebellion by the governors of many Brazilian states. (scirp.org)
  • The global economy is likely slowing sharply this year, hobbled by high interest rates, the repercussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic according to the latest outlook of the World Bank. (wivb.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The global economy is likely slowing sharply this year, hobbled by high interest rates, the repercussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. (wivb.com)
  • In 1985, after twenty-one years of military rule, a democratic government rose to power in Brazil. (cornell.edu)
  • Still talking about the evolution of inequality in Brazil, the minister explained that government research on the topic (mainly by Pnad) indicate a standstill between 2011 and 2012, after ten years of sharp decline. (fgv.br)
  • Canada's economy is currently growing and statistics show the economy is expected to continue to grow in the following years. (bartleby.com)
  • Although dental caries prevalence has declined significantly over the last few years, it is still considered a public health problem in Brazil and worldwide. (bvsalud.org)
  • Their arrival was beneficial for the region, not only because of the skills and knowledge they brought to the country themselves, but also because of spillover effects of their human capital to the native Brazilian population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The amount that Brazil spends on social security and pension payments (14% of GDP) is out of all proportion for a relatively young country. (americasquarterly.org)
  • The prevalence of smoking in Brazil has decreased considerably in recent decades, but the country still has a high burden of disease associated with this risk factor. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Ranked seventh in the world (and the second largest emerging economy) by GDP size, Brazil is the archetypal emerging country. (coface.at)
  • While immigration is among the most important issues the country faces, misperceptions persist about fundamental aspects of this crucial topic-such as the size and composition of the immigrant population, how immigration affects the economy and the workforce, the budgetary impact of unauthorized immigration, why increasing numbers of unaccompanied migrant children are arriving at the United States' Southwest border, and the various facets of U.S. labor migration policy. (epi.org)
  • Market economy country (mec) production in 1987 is projected to be about 524,000 mt, an increase of almost 5 pct over 1986 production. (cdc.gov)
  • The strike follows mass nationwide protests that swept Brazil last month when demonstrators angered with corruption, poor public services and a heavy tax burden took to the streets. (aljazeera.com)
  • Good news for the global economy in 2024? (euronews.com)
  • Because of the COVID-19 spread, there was a slowdown in the global economy, as well as fluctuations in the stock exchange or cancellation of public events. (scirp.org)
  • Dissatisfaction "with things in Brazil today" - a vague phrase seemingly meant to refer to the economy, country's political leaders and the standard of living - rose to 72% from 55% a year earlier, according to the poll. (mercopress.com)
  • The lack of macro reforms, the lack of integration of Brazil with the world economy because the government had decided to prioritize a south-south foreign policy, the change of the petroleum law after the discovery of world class reserves offshore Brazil followed by the commodities crisis had a heavy price. (cornell.edu)
  • In 2007, with a population of over 190 million and abundant natural resources, Brazil is one of the ten largest markets in the world, producing tens of millions of tons of steel, 26 million tons of cement, 3.5 million television sets, and 3 million refrigerators. (wikipedia.org)
  • What was supposed to be an event to [showcase] Brazil to the rest of the world has now become a nightmare,' Carlos Caicedo, senior principal analyst for Latin America at IHS Markit, a London-based research firm, told CNBC in a phone interview. (cnbc.com)
  • When Rio was chosen to host the Olympics in 2009, Brazil was at the top of the world,' Caicedo said. (cnbc.com)
  • Brazil's dedication to advancing its low-carbon economy is a model for the world. (connectbrazil.com)
  • The rise of night mayors and advisors, night-time economy councils and commissions around the world, has helped the emerging field of night-time governance to grow," said City Possible resident expert Seijas. (mastercard.com)
  • This book provides one of the most comprehensive and compelling analysis of Non-Market Economies (NMEs) and their treatment under the current world trading system. (google.co.uk)
  • Sexuality, politics and AIDS in Brazil : in another world? (who.int)
  • The economy is a middle income developing mixed economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Itamar Franco's government had stabilized the economy, renegotiated foreign debt, privatized public enterprises and started a period of prosperity and income increase. (cornell.edu)
  • One way to quantify immigrants' contribution to the U.S. economy is to look at the wages and salaries they earn, as well as the income of immigrant-owned businesses, as a share of all wages, salaries, and business income in the United States. (epi.org)
  • When the Portuguese explorers arrived in the 16th century, the native tribes of current-day Brazil totaled about 2.5 million people and had lived virtually unchanged since the Stone Age. (wikipedia.org)
  • In that period Brazil was also the colony with the largest number of European settlers, most of them Portuguese (including Azoreans and Madeirans) but also some Dutch (see Dutch Brazil), Spaniards, English, French, Germans, Flemish, Danish, Scottish and Sephardic Jews. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1615, Portuguese captain-general Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco of the captaincy of Bahia commanded a military expedition sent by the Governor General of Brazil to check the trading excursions of foreigners (French, Dutch, English) up the river (Amazon) from the Cabo do Norte in Grão Pará. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brazil, discovered by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares during the 16th century, is established on half of South America and is about 16 times bigger than France. (bvsalud.org)