Politics in Brazil Cleaning the Brasília pork factory In a never-ending telenovela of sleaze, Dilma Rousseff is tackling the excesses of patronage politics but not yet the underlying system Nov 26th 2011 | SÃO PAULO | from the print edition BY NOW Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, must be finding the script wearily familiar. First comeContinue reading “Politics in Brazil”
Monthly Archives: November 2011
In Brazil’s Slums, Economic Inequality Tackled With Technology
In Brazil’s Slums, Economic Inequality Tackled With Technology Transcript GWEN IFILL: Next, we take another look at economic inequality, this time in a developing nation. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how one man is using technology to transform lives in the slums of Brazil. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Rio de Janeiro’s gleaming skyline befitsContinue reading “In Brazil’s Slums, Economic Inequality Tackled With Technology”
Insights from a success story of internationalization of a Brazilian consulting firm: MZ consult
While Brazilian agriculture, planes and commodities thrive in international trade balance, the services account is losing ground as it represents only 13% of exports. Why is that? I got some interesting insights from MZ Consult case, a Brazilian company doing well abroad. MZ Consult is today a multinational company; the world’s largest independent global investor relations consulting firm.Continue reading “Insights from a success story of internationalization of a Brazilian consulting firm: MZ consult”
Brazil’s Oil Boom
from The Economist, 5 November Filling up the future Its remarkable offshore oil bonanza could do Brazil a lot of good. But getting the most out of it will not be easy Nov 5th 2011 GEOLOGICAL structures of vast antiquity are more often called on to bolster the arguments of atheists than enlisted as tokensContinue reading “Brazil’s Oil Boom”
Standard and Poor’s upgrads Brazil
Standard and Poor’s upgraded Brazil’s rating as an acknowledgment of the commitment to “meeting fiscal targets”. Brazil’s long-term ratings are now:BBB (sovereign) and A- (local currency).According to ITAU UNIBANCO, “moving further up would require “vigorous” reforms.” S&P remarked remaining risks: “poor inflation control, fiscal largesse, and a swell in lending by state banks.” S&P’s decision follows similar moves by FitchContinue reading “Standard and Poor’s upgrads Brazil”
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