Brazil

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Brazil in the World
8.514.876,599 km2
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General Aspects

• Brazil is the biggest country in Latin America
  and covers almost the half of Latin American
  (47.3)
• Shape of east contour is in conformity of the
  concave curve of West Africa
• Brazil has its frontier with ten countries
• The Atlantic Ocean extends for all its east
  coast.
• Republic since 1889
• Under military governance From 1964 to 1986

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Where do we come from?
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Brazil

• Today!

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Entertainment X Multicultural

• It is Carnival, the party in that, under masks
  and customs, the Brazilian is revealed in his
  essence cheerful, creative, musical and
  irreverent.
• More than just entertainment, Carnival has its
  own industry, where more than 70.000 people work,
  only in Rio de Janeiro.

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Olodum
There is 21 years was born in the
Maciel-Pelourinho the Block Afro Olodum. One of
the more explosive expressions of the culture
afro Bahian. The Block Afro Olodum was a creator
of you fear magnificent and controversial,
inspired and inspiradores, educational and
cultural. You fear that did history and stayed
in the memory of the culture of the Carnival of
the Bahia
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Numbers of Brazil

• Population 182.761.391
• We have 5.560 cities
• Money Real 1 EU 3,60 R
• 26 states Capital Brasilia
• Gross Domestic Product
• 1.372 million (2002)
• Brazil has 8.000 km of
• Atlantic Ocean Coast

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Brazils agriculture will grow 13 in 2005

• AGRICULTURE
• Coffee
• Sugar-cane
• Soybean
• Cotton
• Peanuts

Source VEJA, February
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Sugar-Cane

• Brasil is the greatest producer of sugar-cane in
  the world.
• Mainly products
• Sugar
• Alcohol
• Flammable
• Beverages
• Chemical sectors
• Druggists
• Cleaning products
• Generation of energy

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Mercosul
South Common Market

• Since 1991
• Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay. Bolivia and
  Chile are not members, only participants.

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ALCA - America Free Trade Area

• Projected to be established in 2005
• All countries of Americas (except Cuba) and
  Caribbean
• Only economy interested
• Agribusiness is the most difficult issue

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Main Commercial Partners

• United States
• Germany
• Argentina
• China

• Japan
• Netherlands
• French
• United Kingdom

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Exportations
Importations

• Steel derived products
• Transport equipments
• Minerals
• Footwear
• Fabrics
• Coffee
• Soybean
• Meats

• Mineral products
• Petroleum
• Machinery
• Appliances
• Chemical products

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The metropolitan region of São Paulo has 16.7 of
unemployed

• The metropolitan region of São Paulo has 1.66
  million unemployment people, within the Economic
  Active.

• Sectors Economic Active People
• 53 Commerce and services
• 23 Agriculture and fishing
• 21 Industry
• 3 Other occupations

Source INVERTIA http//br.invertia.com/noticias
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Huge, but poor

• Brazil used to be 8th biggest economy in the
  70s, today is still the 14th, but is the one of
  the biggest in the difference between rich and
  poor. About 50 million people live with less than
  1 US a day.

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The difference between poor and rich decreases

• The gap between the 40 poorest and the 10
  richest has diminished, now its only 17 times.
• The richest earns 9.4 less and the poorest 3
  less.

Source VEJA, February
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Education

• One of the main reasons of the critical unequal
  situation is the poor level of education.
• Only 9 of the people between 18 and 24 years old
  is in the University, and about 18 of all, is
  illiterate.

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The Favela (slum) of Rocinha
is located in the neighborhoods of Gavea and Sao
Conrado in Rio de Janeiro. This is the largest
favela in Latin America, with over 200,000
inhabitants living in an area of less 743 square
meters
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The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement is the
largest social movement in Latin America and one
of the most successful grassroots movements in
the world.
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The expectative is to settle about 115 thousand
families this year. There is about 4 million
families landless Large estate owners (2.8) owns
about 56.7 of Brazils lands
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American Missionary, Doroty Stang, is murdered
for R50,000.00

• Doroty Stang was a member of the Congregation of
  Notredame Sisters, and for the last 20 years one
  of the biggest leaders in the defense of Human
  Rights, against slavery and

Source VEJA, February
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Environment

• Brazil has the biggest rain forest in the world,
  Amazonia. However, international wood sellers and
  cattle raising, have been devastating a total
  unique place like that, with unknown amount of
  undiscovered nature.

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Where are we going?

• Brazil is working hard to get a better and solid
  economy. The investments in Education, Health and
  industry affairs are way low than needed.
• The world is a web, and Brazil will stand up only
  when holding everyone arms.