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/IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ BRAZIL: Problems in Ending State- sponsored Employment
The Government has found that the privatization of Brazil's state-held assets was relatively easy compared to the task of reducing state employment rolls, especially since it has yet to find a way to create replacement jobs.MERCOSUR: Integration Urges Rethink of Triple Alliance War
Advancing integration in the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), which all involved claim should go beyond mere trade, means issues like the official history of the War of the Triple Alliance will have to be revised.BRAZIL-RIGHTS: Leader of Landless Movement Sentenced to 26 Years
The most prominent leader of Brazil's landless movement (MST) was sentenced to 26 years in prison as co-author of the murders of a landholder and police officer, in what critics called a "political trial."BRAZIL-LABOUR: Problems in Ending State-sponsored Employment
The Government has found that the privatization of Brazil's state-held assets was relatively easy compared to the task of reducing state employment rolls, especially since it has yet to find a way to create replacement jobs.COMMUNICATIONS: Privatisation Will Revolutionise Brazil Telecomms
A privatisation programme that promises to revolutionise Brazil's telecommunications sector aims at tripling the number of telephones in four years and will enhance state coffers by around 30 billion dollars, say government economists./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ BRAZIL: Mixed Fortunes For Primary Producers
Cattle farmers have seen a reversal in fortunes in the 1990's but low prices for grain crops have left other famers complaining, agricultural experts say.MERCOSUR-SUGAR: Bittersweet Free Trade
Sugar, excluded from the free trade accords in South America's Mercosur bloc, is emblematic of the troubles presently plaguing Brazil and Argentina, the two largest member states.BRAZIL-AGRICULTURE: Mixed Fortunes for Primary producers
Cattle farmers have seen a reversal in fortunes in the 1990's but low prices for grain crops have left other famers complaining, agricultural experts say.BRAZIL-ECONOMY: High Coffee Prices Boosts Income.
With prices at their highest levels for 20 years, Brazil is counting on coffee boosting export income - although production levels remain frozen.BRAZIL: Landless Movement Takes on Growing Political Dimension
The Brazilian government increasingly sees the Landless Movement (MST), which has gained widespread popular support, as an opponent to be reckoned with.BRAZIL-POLITICS: Cardoso Gets Tough with Dispossessed
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso says he won't tolerate protests such as those advocated by the leader of the Brazilian landless movement in urging urban homeless to invade unoccupied houses.LABOUR-LATAM: Spectre of Unemployment Haunts Latin America
Market reforms, privatisation and monetary stability may have improved the economies of Latin American nations but there is a growing fear among labour officials of increasing unemployment.TRADE: Latin American Development the Unifying Objective
In order to be viable, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) must accelerate development in Latin America and the Caribbean, in a new front of potentially beneficial industrialisation for all./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ AMERICAS: Crossed Wires Between North And South
The US Trade Secretary Bill Daley said today his country was aiming for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to be "the first trade agreement for the 21st century and not the last of the 20th."AMERICAS: Cuba’s Exclusion from FTAA is ‘Realistic’, Gaviria Says
Cuba's exclusion from talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is "realistic" for the time being, according to Cesar Gaviria, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS).AMERICAS: The Debatable Democratic Nature of the FTAA
The preparatory process for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has been "very disciplined and democratically organised," said IDB chairman, Enrique Iglesias, to a Business Forum closing here Thursday.AMERICAS: Crossed Wires between North and South
The US Trade Secretary Bill Daley said today his country was aiming for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to be "the first trade agreement for the 21st century and not the last of the 20th."AMERICAS-LABOUR: Unions Protest Exclusion from Free Trade Talks
The "unjust and anti- democratic" character of the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has been aggravated by the exclusion of a Union Forum, vetoed by Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Costa Rica, trade unionists meeting here protested.AMERICAS: FTAA Draft Reached by Consensus
The 34 nations preparing to form the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) are aiming for a single indivisible agreement to be obtained by consensus, able to coexist with the subregional agreements.CINEMA-BRAZIL: New Movies Focus on Revolutionary Movement
The 1969 kidnapping of an American ambassador and the life of Brazil's foremost communist leader, Luiz Carlose Prestes, feature in the latest movie offerings from Brazil.BRAZIL-AGRICULTURE: TOP Performers Fail to Contain Deficit
Soy, coffee and meat head the growth of Brazil's agricultural exports this year, in a sector headed for a record trade surplus of 12 billion dollars this year. But the top performers will not be able to help the overall trade deficit, which already rose to four billion dollars in the first quarter of 1997, econmic sources said.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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