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Mangabeira Unger: Sustainable Amazonia

December 9, 2008 at 7:35 am · Filed under Agribusiness, Audio, amazon, biodiversity, cerrado, deforestation and tagged: , , , , ,

googleearth_image3 2 part interview with Manageira Unger(part 1, part 2), Harvard law professor and now minister for stategic affairs heading up the Institutue for Applied Research (IPEA), talking about the Sustainable Amazon Programme (PAS).

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Infamous Brazilian shopper?

September 23, 2008 at 7:23 am · Filed under Commodities, growth, inequality, inflation and tagged: , , , , , ,

Jim O Neil, coiner of term BRIC, explains how internal demand from large emerging economies will compensate for adverse credit conditions in the US.

” According to our (Goldman Sachs) latest estimates, so far this decade there has been nearly as much global demand from the BRIC countries as from the US. Going forward, their share of global demand will start to move towards that of all the G7 nations .”

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