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...When I look at Sarah Palin's expression of wonder it looks like she arrived by parachute - and didn't even know that she was on an airplane. Camillo Machnizh, BRAZIL...
...police force. Having conducted interviews with around 50 junior police officers in Argentina, the Pforzheimer resident and social studies concentrator concluded that an increasing “gap between cops on the street and cops in the office” has put police in states such as Argentina and Brazil out of the reach of governmental control. Although he criticized the systematic violence occurring underthe direction of upper-level police officials, Sheffield acknowledged that most police violence resulted from misconduct by individual officers. Sheffield ended his presentation by encouraging Harvard students to join Proyecto Espartaco, a “wiki...
...colleagues and I have examined more than 3,000 companies from developing countries and have identified 100 companies from 14 countries with the near term potential to become global leaders. China is home to the greatest number of global challengers, with 41; followed by India, with 20; Brazil, with 13; and then Mexico, Russia and Turkey. Together, these 14 countries accounted for 17.3% of the world's total economic output, or gross domestic product...
...much the same in Latin America, where Mexico's CEMEX, with nearly $21.7 billion in revenue last year, is one of the largest cement producers in the world. Brazil's Embraer is the leading manufacturer of regional jets in the world...
...major nations remain robust. No major war has disrupted international trade in more than a half-century. On the contrary, the explosion of global commerce in the past several decades has underwritten prosperity not only for developed countries but for many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes without fear of deflation or devaluation. And a landscape populated by an array...