Brazil: growth, adaptive capacity & new green technologies
environmental opportunities and antagonisms for Brazil in the 21st CenturyArchive for BNDES
Farmers and debt
Banks are calling in their cash lent to farmers in the good years when high prices paved the way for agricultural expansion. As the good times get leaner and advantages are eroded loan capital has disappeared and the state has no concrete plans in place.
from FT.com
Growth, inflation and development strategy
Video from BNDES President Luciano Coutinho talking about how they see their national development plan is proceeding at a national level against the international economic outlook. Reactions to the forecasted slowdown of growth from 1st quarter rate of 5.8% and to the government’s plan to combat inflation looked at in Folha de SP. Lula’s take on the recent growth rate and Brazil’s changing fortunes regarding the G-8
from folha online:
Donation-based Amazon fund
In trying to find ways to slow Amazonian deforestation, Lula has called on the developed world to contribute to a fund to be coordinated by the BNDES. Donations will not be exchanged for carbon credits but does appear to be a step towards creating an international accountability framework for protecting the ‘lungs of the earth’.
