Doing Business In Brazil: Brazil On The Move

Brazil On The Move

The following is an excerpt from a report by Roger Ingold and Marcelo Gil de Souza, for Accenture's Outlook Journal of High Performance Business, discussing Brazil's emergence as a leading economy.

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Once known for samba and soccer, the country is now the land of surprising and substantial commercial and financial opportunity. It offers a rare amalgam of political stability, economic diversity and dynamism, fiscal austerity and conformity with the cadence of Western business. 

For businesses and investors worldwide, Brazil is providing more and more ways to tap huge and rapidly expanding consumer markets, put capital to work, harness the energies and intellect of its growing professional class, find new suppliers, and forge new partnerships in an increasingly diversified economy. 

Some leading multinationals clearly already understand the nation’s potential: It sends regular trade missions abroad and has trade support centers as far afield as Poland and the Arabian Gulf. It has been central to a peace-keeping mission in Haiti, among many other global initiatives. Meanwhile, Brazil boasts that it has greater individual freedom than China, less sectarian volatility than India, and almost none of the potential for political unrest or natural disasters that overshadow those nations.

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Doing Business In Brazil: Global Research Report

The New Geography Of Science: Research And Collaboration In Brazil

The following is an excerpt from a Global Research Report by Thomson Reuters, discussing Brazil's involvement as an emerging economic player in research, labeled a BRIC country, by some (Brazil, Russia, India, China)

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Brazil is an increasingly important and competitive research economy. Its research workforce capacity and R&D investment are expanding rapidly, offering many new possibilities in a diversifying research portfolio. It has received much less policy attention than China, however, and the research base in Latin America, in general, is unfamiliar to many in Europe and Asia.

The report shows that Brazil’s output has doubled in ten years prior to 2007, part of a long-term trend of growth that far exceeds established G7 economies. Relative to the rest of the world, Brazil has exceptional capacity in biology-based disciplines and research related to natural resources.

Brazil’s main international partners are led by G7 economies with very large research bases of their own. It also has excellent and fast growing links with Portugal, and appears to be a key player in an emerging regional network. The organizations which underpin this collaborative web are internationally excellent in their own countries.

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