Brazil is set to grow at a disappointing 1.5% in 2012 after doing much of what it can to manage the global economic downturn. President Dilma Roussef has governed Brazil since the country’s roaring comeback in 2010 from the 2008/2009…
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Highlights: The First 18 Months of President Dilma’s Government
The Brazilian Presidency’s Social Communication Office (SECOM) recently circulated a 78-page booklet of public policy highlights associated with President Dilma Roussef’s administration. Here are a few highlighted policy numbers and other outcomes are worth noting: 1. The number of international…
Corn and Economic Interdependence
It does sound corny, but basic grains can bring people and nations together when diplomats cannot or will not. Corn, ethanol, soy, and vegetable oil to eat or fuel transportation are increasingly bringing Brazil and the United States into a…
On the Road to Retaliation?
For over a decade Brazil and the United States have sparred over the latter’s agricultural support programs, largely within the institutional arena of the World Trade Organization. This commercial conflict came to a head in 2010 upon the WTO’s authorization…
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…
Brazil’s Agricultural Export Bottleneck Challenge
The U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently released a two part report that takes stock of Brazil’s growing productive capacity as well as the emerging bottlenecks to agricultural export growth. FAS reports, “Brazilian exports continue to surge and provide growing competition…