Covid-19: Brazil will lose US$240 billion income from pandemic, says Unctad
Brazil will suffer an income loss of US$240 billion (R$ 1.260 trillion) between 2020-2025 because of the effects of the...
September 15, 2021Topic
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“Brazil should reassume the leadership of Mercosur and revive trade with its neighbors” – economist
"What Brazil exports to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay are mostly industrialized products. When this trade drops, as it is now,...
March 26, 2021
Carnival 2019 Estimated to Generate Almost R$7 Billion for Brazil
With less than two weeks to go until one of the biggest spectacles in the world, Brazil's National Confederation of...
February 21, 2019
Brazil’s Petrobras Profits Soar US$2.7 Billion in Second Quarter
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's beleagured state-run oil company Petrobras registered a surprising surge...
August 7, 2018
Brazil’s Unemployment Rate Falls: Daily
Salaries in Brazil rose and the jobless rate went down to 5.3 percent from 5.6 percent last month, slightly below...
September 27, 2013
Brazil Human Development Up 50 Percent
Brazil’s Municipal Human Development Index (MHDI) rose nearly fifty percent in twenty years, the UNDP Brazil 2013 Human Development Atlas...
July 30, 2013
Wealth Growing in Some Favela Communities
The economic differences are becoming more apparent in some of Rio’s favela communities, as a new A/B class is growing.
October 30, 2012
Middle Class Growth in Brazil: Daily
In 2011 Brazil’s middle class was the biggest of all five of the country’s ‘official’ classes, comprising 54 percent of...
March 23, 2012
Brazil Strives for Economic Equality
Brazil poverty rates have halved over the last two decades, lifting 28 million people out of extreme poverty and allowing...
February 7, 2012