By Camila Fontana and Adriana Brasileiro – Bloomberg Brazil’s rate of investment is failing to keep pace with demand sparked by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s stimulus programs, threatening to quicken inflation and force policy makers to increase interest rates. As demand recovers after Brazil’s first recession since 2003 — helped by public spending, [...]
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Negotiators at Climate Talks Face Deep Set of Fault Lines
Countdown to Copenhagen, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil By TOM ZELLER Jr. – The New York Times With the scientific consensus more or less settled that human activity — the burning of fossil fuels, torching of forests, and so forth — is contributing to a warmer and less hospitable planet, one might reasonably ask, [...]
Climate talks remain alive, but so do many obstacles
By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved — including the money that industrialized countries would offer poorer ones as part of an [...]
World Out of Balance
By PAUL KRUGMAN From The New Yok Times Photo by Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy or anything else. But let’s hope that when the cameras aren’t rolling Mr. [...]
A voice for the emerging nations
Brazil wants developing countries to have their say and a bigger vote share in the IMF and in the World Bank. According to an article published this Tuesday (8) by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, that is the government’s main goal for the next G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, U.S., on September 24th. Brazil’s official [...]
Brazil, one of the multinationals’ sweethearts
GENEVA – With both eyes on the Brazilian market, multinationals indicated the country as the fourth favorite place to invest in the next two years, according to a research of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). BRIC members (Brazil, Russia, India and China) occupy four of the five first countries investors would like [...]
Brazil booms on real estate
Brazilian real estate is booming again. After a relatively bad period, sales have rebounded in Brazil, an American real estate private equity investor said in an interview to Reuters last Tuesday. Launched two weeks ago, a 104-unit residential project directed at middle-income families in Sao Paulo’s Vila Carrao area is the best example of that, [...]
Seattle Times: Brazil has new standing in the world
The Seattle Times was yesterday full of praises for Brazil’s leading position as a major economy. Tyler Bridges talks about Saturday’s G-20 summit in Washington and how President Lula is trying to convince G7 countries leaders to give a bigger say to developing countries. The idea is to create a permanent G14, including Brazil, Russia, [...]