Word: brazile
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...recent innovation is the combination of some Ashoka operations with McKinsey's expertise. In the slums of Sao Paolo, Brazil, an Ashoka entrepreneur named Leonardo Pessina was able to build high-quality housing at less than half the normal construction cost by getting the community to provide much of the labor. But managing a huge construction operation threatened to overwhelm even the committed Pessina. So McKinsey made available about 25% of its local staff as volunteers to manage the project. And the consulting firm received a major payback. "McKinsey has an understanding of the local housing market that it never...
Some see these moves as steps toward a world full of nukes. But in retrospect what is striking is less the number of countries that have gone nuclear than the number that have not. And several, including South Africa, Brazil and Argentina, have even reversed course and abandoned once active weapons programs...
...first place I went was Sao Paulo, Brazil and that was major culture shock. The first day I had to order food, and I didn't know any Portugese or even Spanish," Hall says. "People would teach me the words, but at first it was so hard just to say them. I was really timid--it was hard...
...highlighted by Wednesday's announcement of an executive order by President Clinton that Washington would refrain from enforcing U.S. patents on AIDS drugs in African countries battling the disease. That would leave those countries free to license or develop far cheaper generic versions of the patented drugs - already in Brazil, for example, a generic version of AZT sells for about 10 percent of the patented drug's price on the U.S. market - which pharmaceutical corporations fear could eventually eat into their global market share...
Latin America's 4% household penetration of personal computers seems less relevant every day. This year, for example, TV set-top boxes that, for $100 to $200 each, can turn a television set into a computer screen are due to appear in Brazil. Wireless broadband expansion will turn Brazil's ubiquitous cell phones into tiny screens. "Latin Americans have been early and avid adopters of technology," says Antonio Bonchristiano, CEO of the e-commerce company Submarino.com "The key to growth is the cost of a Web device...