Infrastructure Investment in Northeastern Brazil Challenges and Opportunities in a Developing Region A BrazilWorks Briefing Paper Prepared by Chris Cote and Mark S. Langevin, Ph.D. Summary The Northeast region is growing faster than the national average due to a high…
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BrazilWorks Research Associate Chris Cote
Chris Cote is the energy and economics research associate at BrazilWorks. He previously worked as a researcher with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the energy,…
U.S.-Brazil Trade and Investment Relationship: Opportunities and Challenges
On June 12, 2013 the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee (the subcommittee on Trade) held a hearing on the “U.S.-Brazil Trade and Investment Relationship: Opportunities and Challenges.” The hearing featured testimony from a variety of voices in…
Innovation and Venture Capital Policy in Brazil
Krista Tuomi and Lopo De Castro Neto (2013) provide an efficient description and comparison of the state of innovation policies in Brazil and South Africa to conclude, “South Africa and Brazil have the potential to become important world players in…
Narratives of Brazil-Africa Cooperation for Agricultural Development: New Paradigms?
Lídia Cabral and Alex Shankland of the Futures Agricultural Consortium (FAC) have released a concise descriptive and analytical treatment of Brazil’s expanding agricultural cooperation in Africa, “Narratives of Brazil-Africa Cooperation for Agricultural Development: New Paradigms?” This article is a must read…
The Brazilian Capital Goods Market: Recent Development and Future Prospects
Brazil is undergoing a rapid transformation from inward oriented national development to a fully globalized political economy whose government is quickly learning how to craft public policies to guarantee economic stability, growth, and an ever increasing list of private sector…
Presalt Oil Discoveries and the Long-Term Development of Brazil
Pablo Fajnzylber, Daniel Lederman, and Julia Oliver of the World Bank recently published, “Presalt Oil Discoveries and the Long-Term Development of Brazil,” a World Bank Economic Premise publication. Fajnzylber and his colleagues provide a concise overview of the growing importance…
Brazil and Transatlantic Relations
Earlier this month, Mark S. Langevin, Ph.D., Director of BrazilWorks published “Brazil, Energy and the Atlantic Basin Opportunity” in the pages of Altantic-Community.org, an open think tank. The piece was part of a larger effort to develop a series of…
Brazil and the BRICS
“BRICS AND AFRICA: PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT, INTEGRATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION,” was the theme of the fifth BRICS summit, held in Durban, South Africa on March 26-27 2013. According to Presidency of Brazil, “With the Fifth Summit, BRICS completes its first cycle: each…
Brazil, Energy, and the Atlantic Basin Opportunity
Brazil, Energy, and the Atlantic Basin Opportunity by Mark S. Langevin Altantic-Community.org April 3, 2013 In its pursuit of energy security, Brazil struck a hydrocarbon bonanza with the offshore, ultra deep-water “pre-salt” reserves. The pre-salt discoveries promise to more than…