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WHEN, back in 2001, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with
Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate
the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym.
Brazil? A country with a growth rate as skimpy as its swimsuits, prey
to any financial crisis that was around, a place of chronic political instability, whose infinite capacity to squander its obvious potential
was as legendary as its talent for football and carnivals, did not
seem to belong with those emerging titans.
Now that skepticism looks misplaced. China may be leading the world
economy out of recession but Brazil is also on a roll. It did not
avoid the downturn, but was among the last in and the first out. Its
economy is growing again at an annualised rate of 5%. It should pick
up more speed over the next few years as big new deep-sea oilfields
come on stream, and as Asian countries still hunger for food and
minerals from Brazil's vast and bountiful land. Forecasts vary, but
sometime in the decade after 2014 - rather sooner than Goldman Sachs envisaged - Brazil is likely to become the world's fifth-largest
economy, overtaking Britain and France. By 2025 São Paulo will be its fifth-wealthiest city, according to PwC, a consultancy.
And, in some ways, Brazil outclasses the other BRICs. Unlike China, it
is a democracy. Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and
religious conflicts nor hostile neighbours. Unlike Russia, it exports
more than oil and arms, and treats foreign investors with respect.
Under the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former
trade-union leader born in poverty, its government has moved to reduce
the searing inequalities that have long disfigured it. Indeed, when it
comes to smart social policy and boosting consumption at home, the
developing world has much more to learn from Brazil than from China.
//
Artigo original de Dezembro de 2009. Posteriormente re-editado
mais de 20 vezes para tentar convencer o leitor que o Presidente da
epoca era o FHC.
LOL. Ate coxotario sabe, apesar dos #FAKE_NEWS, que foi o
Grandioso Estadista Lula.
Tem que ser MUITO ignorante pra nao saber.
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Quem apoia GOLPES trai o braZil.
Tiraram o PT
E o braZil sifu.
#VOTEM_PT em 2022.
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Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
//
WHEN, back in 2001, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with
Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate
the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym.
Brazil? A country with a growth rate as skimpy as its swimsuits, prey
to any financial crisis that was around, a place of chronic political
instability, whose infinite capacity to squander its obvious potential
was as legendary as its talent for football and carnivals, did not
seem to belong with those emerging titans.
Now that skepticism looks misplaced. China may be leading the world
economy out of recession but Brazil is also on a roll. It did not
avoid the downturn, but was among the last in and the first out. Its
economy is growing again at an annualised rate of 5%. It should pick
up more speed over the next few years as big new deep-sea oilfields
come on stream, and as Asian countries still hunger for food and
minerals from Brazil's vast and bountiful land. Forecasts vary, but
sometime in the decade after 2014 - rather sooner than Goldman Sachs
envisaged - Brazil is likely to become the world's fifth-largest
economy, overtaking Britain and France. By 2025 São Paulo will be its
fifth-wealthiest city, according to PwC, a consultancy.
And, in some ways, Brazil outclasses the other BRICs. Unlike China, it
is a democracy. Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and
religious conflicts nor hostile neighbours. Unlike Russia, it exports
more than oil and arms, and treats foreign investors with respect.
Under the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former
trade-union leader born in poverty, its government has moved to reduce
the searing inequalities that have long disfigured it. Indeed, when it
comes to smart social policy and boosting consumption at home, the
developing world has much more to learn from Brazil than from China.
//
Artigo original de Dezembro de 2009. Posteriormente re-editado
mais de 20 vezes para tentar convencer o leitor que o Presidente da
epoca era o FHC.
LOL. Ate coxotario sabe, apesar dos #FAKE_NEWS, que foi o
Grandioso Estadista Lula.
Tem que ser MUITO ignorante pra nao saber.
-------------------------------------------
Quem apoia GOLPES trai o braZil.
Tiraram o PT
E o braZil sifu.
#VOTEM_PT em 2022.
[]'s
Voo de galinha, igual ao do regime militar.
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