Word: brazile
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Eastern Europe is now playing catch-up. Poland has one of the world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...
...evidence that Latin America's backlash against globalization - especially the capitalist reforms that have so far done more harm than good for the region's 500 million people in poverty - could revive the failed left-wing economic policies that provoked those free-market reforms in the first place. Brazil, for example, last year elected former labor leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as President. In Peru, antiglobalization riots (most often prompted by complaints over industry privatization) have become common. And the "Bolivarian Revolution" of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has brought double-digit economic contraction...
...York City, which were strict about accepting only adult volunteers. Her high school, Midwood High, despite being surrounded by the pressing conditions of the city, never ventured out with a strong student service program. After doing what she could from Midwood, Hammond ended up volunteering in Sao Paolo, Brazil through the Legion of Good Will...
...million earlier this year. Here was an icon of American fashion, the man who gave the world designer denim in the '70s and put underwear over the top in the '80s, a mere spectator at the debut of his designated successor, a virtually unknown 32-year-old from Brazil named Francisco Costa...
Emerging markets should do well as more capital becomes available. Countries like Brazil and Russia are volatile investments, but they're a pure play on global growth and worth 2% to 5% of your stock portfolio. Consider diversified mutual funds such as Acadian Emerging Markets and Vanguard Emerging Markets...