Brazil: growth, adaptive capacity & new green technologies
environmental opportunities and antagonisms for Brazil in the 21st CenturyArchive for China
What China means to Brazil
With China passing USA as no.1 manufacturer here is a PDF report from Deutsche Bank looking at China Brazil trading relationship… Read the rest of this entry »
Decoupling to Recoupling
Jim O Neil, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, explains where the markets are regarding links to the US economy. China, whose retail spending is now higher than that of the US, has decoupled taking with it economies connected to and supporting to its continued growth.
Soy, Sertao, China
Article focusing on the largest soy producer in the Sertao and a look at the record Chinese imports of the bean. Graph below showing projections of soy bean exports for the US and Brazil.
source: mongabay.com based on USDA data
10.7m PCs in 2007
Brazil was the 5th largest purchaser of personal computers last year behind the USA, China, Japan and Great Britain with the country aiming to improve on its position by 2010. Brazilian firm Positiva Informatica sold 1 389 000 machines – the first time a national firm has broken the 1m mark. Have a look here for how digital inclusion and computer recycling are working together with open source software to increase digital access and here for a list of the government’s ‘Inclusao Digital’ programmes.
2007 Multinational ranking
Fundacao Dom Cabral and the Columbia Programme for International Investment compiled this top twenty ranking for Brazilian multinationals. The outward FDI (OFDI) flow exceeded inward for the first time in 2006 making Brazil the third largest developing country in terms of OFDI after China (HK) and Singapore. The top twenty MNCS employ 77 000 people abroad selling goods and services worth approx $30bn.
