Word: braziller
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...Pakistan as many as 20 million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India, Thailand, Peru, Brazil and the Dominican Republic...
STANDARD ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES RARELY APPLY IN Brazil. But one law has stood the test of time: the length of a Finance Minister's tenure is inversely proportional to the rate of inflation. With prices rising 28% a month, President Itamar Franco put Finance Minister Paulo Haddad on the firing line, berating him and criticizing his policies in public. Haddad, who had barely 10 weeks to settle into the job, resigned and was replaced by former Transport Minister Eliseu Resende. He is the third Finance Minister since Franco took office five months ago and Brazil's ninth in the past eight...
...first press conference the new Minister, not an economist but an engineer, said that what Brazil needed was some "genetic engineering of the numbers." To nervous businessmen that sounded ominously like a another price freeze. Resende firmly denied that he has any miracle cures in mind. But if he hopes to keep his job for very long, Resende will have to move fast to placate his impatient boss and rescue his inflation-weary countrymen. For the record: over the past 25 years prices have risen...
Other topics to be addressed during the week include "Gender and Discourses of Democracy in Brazil," "Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas," and "Politics and Gender in Early Modern France...
...with Darci and Darly's escape from prison last Monday, Brazil's western frontier has regained its reputation for lawlessness. Despite repeated warnings that lax security made a jailbreak all but inevitable, state and federal government officials paid no attention. Once again, rubber tappers fear more violence. "This place could turn into a war zone," warned Gumercindo Rodrigues of the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union. Inundated with protests from environmental groups, the Brazilian government vowed to recapture the gunmen. "They'll never find them," predicted Mendes' widow Ilzamar, who accused local authorities of complicity in the escape. A police manhunt...