Word: brazile
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...girl was 11 a child of the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil, whose future seemed as bleak as the slums in which she lived. Then Carla Nisiane Anacleto da Costa saw a ballet performance by students from a dance school called EDISCA, a troupe that included other impoverished girls from her street. EDISCA (the letters stand for the Spanish name of the School of Dance and Social Integration for Children and Adolescents) was not your average ballet company, and this was no Swan Lake. It portrayed Fortaleza's poorest kids begging at traffic lights and living on the street. "That really...
...Costa enrolled in EDISCA, and the school changed her life, as it has the lives of 800 other girls ages 6 to 19--and a few boys--from Fortaleza, a coastal city in Brazil's poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being lured...
VIVA LA BOLSA A new President in Peru and a debt deal in Argentina last week helped volatile Latin American funds rise 2.4%. But the broader story is in Mexico, which with Brazil makes up 90% or so of the region's portfolio. Brazil's stock index is down 14% since January, but as an Evergreen manager says, "Mexico is on a tear." Its export gains and slower but solid growth will drive this fidgety sector through expected summer doldrums...
...been interested in the developing world and international economics since the beginning of his career, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on inflation and its relationship to economic development in Brazil...
...Brazil has long been called a country of the future and it seemed to me a fascinating place. I was bedeviled at the time by the interesting question of the effect inflation had on the country,” Rubin said...