Word: brazilians
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...This has changed our reality.' DILMA ROUSSEFF, chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the discovery of huge oil reserves off the nation's coast that could turn Brazil into one of the world's biggest oil producers...
...Brazil's reputation for epic corruption, gaping inequality and baroque bureaucracy--it takes 152 days to start a business there, according to a KPMG consulting study, compared with 32 in Argentina--there are more pressing issues of an overvalued real, high taxation, weak infrastructure and especially pension reform. Incredibly, Brazilian pensioners receive more money as a share of GDP than the rest of the population of 188 million, sucking investment from badly neglected areas like education. Says Renato Fragelli, director of the Graduate School of Economics at the Fundação Getulio Vargas think tank in Rio de Janeiro...
DILMA ROUSSEFF, chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the discovery of huge oil reserves off the nation's coast that could turn Brazil into one of the world's biggest oil producers...
...hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs for a company to market an effective drug from natural resources, and the big scores are rare. But they do happen. As many as a quarter of all prescription drugs today are linked to the kinds of indigenous discoveries that make Brazilian catuaba bark a rain-forest version of Viagra for the herbal-supplement crowd. Two of Eli Lilly's more successful cancer drugs, Velban and Oncovin, were developed from Madagascar's rosy periwinkle plant, found through a shaman some 40 years ago. In the 1990s the two cancer drugs produced combined...
...Still, Brazilian heads turned when Joorabchian signed a 10-year deal giving MSI control--and 51% of the profit. Joorabchian spent $14 million to bring three top players back to Brazil. Then he lured star Argentine forward Carlos Tevez for a South American record $22.6 million...