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Year 8
Issue 340
Week of Jan 27 to Feb 02, 2007.
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Avoiding the issues...
Brazil's Stunted GDP Growth: Few Solutions On The Horizon...
by Eleno Mendonça
The need for faster economic growth and a solid support base in Congress are key challenges as president Lula's second term in office gets under way. Challenges to which his responses so far are not encouraging... |
Powerful seeds...
The Agro-Energy Revolution: Brazil Has A Head Start...
by Marcos Jank
Brazil's established ethanol program, and newer projects aimed at developing biodiesel, put the country in the forefront of a global race to develop petroleum substitutes... |
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View From Beyond: Washington, D.C.
U.S.-Brazil Trade Relations: Finding Post-Elections Overlap...
by Mark Langevin
Mark S. Langevin is national organizer for the Brazil Strategy Network, a U.S. group of dedicated to Brazil-related issues, and strategic analyst for AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. |
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View From Within
Brazil's President Lula: Good And Bad Legacies...
by Maílson da Nóbrega
Maílson da Nóbrega is an economist, a former finance minister (1988-90) during the administration of president José Sarney, and a partner at Tendências, one of Brazil’s most respected economic consultancies. |
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December 2006
EDC: Brazil To Benefit From Global Economic Slowdown
InfoBrazil interviews Stephen Poloz
Stephen Poloz is senior vice-president for corporate affairs and chief economist at EDC – Export Development Canada, a Crown Corporation that provides financing and risk management services to Canadian exporters and investors, which supported 190 Canadian companies doing business in Brazil in 2006. |
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April 2006
Cashing In On "Opportunities": Stability & Confidence Key For Brazil...
InfoBrazil interviews Gene Huang
Gene Huang is chief economist for FedEx, and managing director of the company’s Economic and Industry Analysis Group. |
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February Review
Cardoso According To Cardoso: Brazil's Recent History Revisited...
by Ted Goertzel
Readers in the United States will be the first to experience the memoirs of former president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The English version of “The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir” makes its début in March. Our review comes from renowned Brazilianist Ted Goertzel, a sociology professor at Rutgers University and author of what is generally regarded as one of the best books about the Cardoso presidency published outside Brazil. |
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February Review
How Indian Can An Indian Be?
by Marcelo Pen
Our February Book Review selection is "Racial Revolutions: Antiracism & Indian Resurgence in Brazil" by Jonathan W. Warren, a recent release by Duke University Press. Our Book Editor described it as serious, inteligent and colourful... |
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