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...JANEIRO: Congratulate the Brazilian people for their farsightedness: The current global contagion that has pushed Brazil's government to the brink of disaster has visited equal hardship on its people, yet the nation is poised to reelect President Fernando Enrique Cardoso with the full knowledge that he has even deeper hardship in store. Rarely have the IMF and its usual victims -- ordinary citizens -- been in such agreement...
...feel there's no better leader for Brazil than Cardoso right now," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "But after the election, they're counting on deep budget cuts and austerity measures, and the $30 billion bailout that they're trying to put together will be conditional on that." As always, the economic powers that be are pointing to a light at the end of the tunnel -- an optimism that's selling rather poorly in Indonesia and South Korea right now. But Baumohl says that Brazil is healthy enough -- and vital enough to U.S. interests -- to pull through. "If Brazil...
...country of liberty and freedom, what happened to the right of privacy? Is it gone with the wind? FABIO PESSOA DOS SANTOS Sao Paulo, Brazil...
Since the Asian financial crisis began over ayear ago, foreign markets have seen sharp drops.Harvard's investments in emergingmarkets--including Russia, Brazil, Argentina,Korea, Taiwan, India and South Africa--also postedheavy losses...
...recession comes, economists say, the cause will be the inability of countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Venezuela to buy as many U.S. exports with their devalued currencies--and the hit on U.S. wages and corporate earnings as cheap imports from those countries grab a greater share of the U.S. consumer's wallet...