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ECONOMY-BRAZIL: The End of the Employer State
The Brazilian state is about to lose one of its most important traditional functions, that of a large-scale employer which currently provides a full one quarter of all formal sector jobs, with the extra benefit of guaranteed job security.ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT – 2.
The countries and peoples that speak Portuguese have in common not only a language but a poetic, melodic, rhythmic and thematic identity. Music creates a sense of community in a way that neither politics, economics nor governments can ever imbue.ENVIRONMENT: El Nino Strikes Deep Into Amazonia
Freakish weather attributed to the phenomenon known as El Nino - a warm Pacific current - is causing one of the most prolonged and intense droughts in the history of the Amazonian region. This, on top of the usual environmental hazards such as fires and deforestation has made 1997 a year of horror for Brazil.BRAZIL: State Reform Induced by Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Falls on the Hong Kong stock exchange forced Brazil to reconsider the Administrative State Reform, while speculative raids on the real made the government hoist up interest rates and impose fiscal measures.BRAZIL-POPULATION: Future Belongs to Women
Women in Brazil live longer than men, have higher levels of education and work mainly in the tertiary sector - the fastest growing area of the economy.BRAZIL: Situation of Children Improves but Unevenly
The young make up 38 percent of the Brazilian population but account for a mere 12.4 percent of the government social budget. However, new information published Monday showed they are better off than ever before.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Destroying the Illusions of Emerging Markets
Global financial shake-ups, more frequent than the old cyclical crises of capitalism, are destroyers of illusions in emerging economies.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: The Honeymoon is Over
The 51 fiscal measures announced by the Brazilian government this week in the wake of the financial turmoil in Asia brought a sharp drop in support for the government's economic policy, and gave rise to uncertainty over the future.BRAZIL-ECONOMY: Gov’t Announces 50 Ways to Tighten Belt
As part of a package of 50 measures announced Monday by the Brazilian government to reduce its fiscal deficit, close to 33,000 public functionaries will be dismissed, fuel prices will be raised and the cost of travel abroad will rise.BRAZIL-TRADE: Pork Becomes Meat Export Leader
A sharp rise in the volume of pork exported from Brazil should continue next year when sales would top those of beef products, according to latest figures.BRAZIL-FINANCE: Nations Converted into Bank-States
The global instability triggered by financial crises like the Hong Kong crash indicate that today's process of globalisation is reducing nation states to simple banking entities.LATAM-ECONOMY: ‘Dragon Dances Samba and Tango, Lays Off Tequila’
While Mexico has emerged from this week's global financial shock relatively unscathed, Brazil's Central Bank took drastic measures to support its national currency, and Argentina is keeping a worried eye on Brazil.BRAZIL-ECONOMY: Asian Currency Crisis Rattles Rubber Industry
The fall out from financial upsets in Southeast Asia has hurt at least one sector of the Brazilian economy - the production of natural rubber.DEVELOPMENT: Brazil Challenges EU on Agrarian reform
Brazil is pressing the European Union to assist agrarian reform in Brazil by lowering tariffs for Brazilian products and increasing imports from rural areas here.BRAZIL-US: Clinton Exercises His ‘Power of Seduction’
U.S. President Bill Clinton used all his powers of seduction to conquer a Brazil resistant to unreservedly embracing a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).BRAZIL-US: Key Accords on Education, Environment, Technology
Washington is not seeking to divide the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) as widely rumoured, U.S. President Bill Clinton said Tuesday in Brazil.BRAZIL-US: Clinton’s Visit will Leave Trade Issues Aside
Brazilian and U.S. officials will put aside trade issues during US President Bill Clinton's visit here in an effort to draw up a positive agenda on bilateral relations that most effect integration of the Americas, according to government sources..BRAZIL: The Pope and the Family – the Reality /IPS BULLETIN OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS/
Pope John Paul II gave the Roman Catholic Church new ammunition during his Brazilian visit to defend the indissolubility of marriage, with a doctrinaire incursion that supports Christian families on a very difficult field of ba ttle.BRAZIL-LABOUR: Industrialists Favour Flexible Labour Laws
Brazilian industrialists have launched an offensive to bring flexible labour laws to Brazil, that would allow an increase in temporary work and variable working days, that they deem indispensable to containing unemployment.LATIN AMERICA: Despite Pope’s Crowds, Catholicism on the Decline
The Roman Catholic Church has been losing strength in Brazil, where Pope John Paul II began this week his third visit since 1980.BRAZIL: Marriage – not Family – in Crisis, Say Analysts
Pope John Paul II's visit this week to Brazil is focusing on the crisis of the family. But some analysts say it is not the family but the institution of marriage that is in crisis.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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