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,…
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…
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 in Africa
Christina Stolte and Chatham House recently published a briefing on Brazil in Africa, Brazil in Africa: Just Another BRICS Country Seeking Resources? The November 2012 briefing explores Brazil’s rapidly growing engagement with African nation-states, in particular Angola, Mozambique, and South…
CNI’s 2012 Growth Assessment
Brazil’s National Confederation of Industry (CNI) issued its Economia Brasileira 2012 on an optimistic, but sober assessment of the past year and immediate future. According to the CNI, the economic environment is fertile for continued expansion founded upon more favorable exchange…
Managing the Downswing in Brazil
Since Brazil’s amazing comeback in 2010, two years after the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, the country’s growth has cooled off to an average of 2.8% and probably will not surpass 1.5% in 2012. Brazil’s National Confederation of Industry (CNI) quarterly…
Repsol-Sinopec Drills Deep to Deliver Up Another Huge Discovery
Brazil’s oil and gas treasure just keeps on giving. According to Brazil Energy, “Petrobras’ hegemony in the discovery of giant, offshore Brazilian fields may be over. Repsol Sinopec Brasil’s exploratory campaign in the BM-C-33…
Can Brazil’s Capital Markets Deepen?
Joonkyu Park’s recently distributed IMF Working Paper (September 2012) provides an excellent overview and description of Brazil’s capital market evolution in recent years. In particular, it suggests that future policy efforts should point toward further diversification of market structure to…