Archive for July 6th, 2008
Mexico City examined in ‘First Stop in the New World’
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via SF Chronicle
in “First Stop in the New World,” author David Lida mostly eschews forecasting in favor of clear-eyed, agenda-free journalism, grounded in old-fashioned street reporting.
Nothing fundamental has changed since the North American Free Trade Agreement, or really for the past couple of decades, except that a Mexican, Carlos Slim Helú, has surpassed [...]
BRIC growth prospects
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there are also structural factors at work that bode well for the medium-term growth prospects of the BRICs. These factors can be captured in a simple growth accounting framework. Economic growth can be broken down into several components, namely changes in labour and capital inputs, and total factor productivity. (Total factor [...]
Brazil announces plan to become world’s granary
India eNews
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced an initiative, involving an investment of 78 billion reais ($49 billion), to make Brazil the “granary of the world”, Spain’s EFE news agency reported Thursday.
‘What for others is a crisis, Brazil has to face as an opportunity to truly transform ourselves into the granary [...]
Betting on goodies from Brazil, Mexico
Daily News & Analysis
Three years ago, when the US National Intelligence Council studied the global trends setting the stage for 2020, the outcome reported under “Mapping the Global Future” largely missed Latin America. The potential of India and China was recognised, while Brazil found a brief mention.
Developments since then have, however, put Latin America prominently [...]
Wanted – Skilled Workers for a Growing Economy in Brazil
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One possible solution is to have a roadshow in Indian cities, to attract Indian engineers to Brazil.
NYTimes.com
The average Brazilian worker has six years of schooling, compared with 10 years in South Korea, 11 in Japan and 12 in the United States and Europe, according to the National Confederation of Industry study.
Of the [...]
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