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Exploring Fortune 500 Companies in Brazil

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  OMG, like private investment in, like, super restricted sectors like electricity, mining, banking, and telecommunications is, like, totally allowed now. And guess what? It's attracting hella foreign investment! (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2010). Foreign investment was like, chill AF during the 90's, even though Mexico and Argentina got wrecked by financial crises that lowkey messed with investment in Latin America. But like, when the whole world got hit by the financial crisis in Asia in '97, there was some sick economic recovery in Latin America. At this time, Brazil and other developing countries were like, totally lit for foreign investors, you know? Latin America was totally slaying it in 1997, like the star of the show among all the developing country regions. The region totally flexed on South, East, and South-East Asia with that FDI per capita. OMG, FDI inflows were lit in 1997; they like totally skyrocketed by 19 percent (World Investment Report, 1998). The worl

Brazil and the Fortune 500 List

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  It's like, duh, Brazil totally belongs in the squad of these four lit AF developing economies. Although China is like, totally the major recipient of FDI, Brazil has shown mad growth through the last two decades and in 2010 Brazil was one of the world’s fastest growing economies (Lopez, 2011). Lit, right? Brazil has like totally flexed its reach beyond South American borders to like level up its connections with the other BRICs and other developing countries. An example of this is "The India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum", more commonly known as IBSA, which is a lit dialogue forum created in Brasilia in 2003 under the leadership of President Lula (Roett, 2010:133). OMG, like the forums home page says "IBSA is lit af! It's all about three emerging countries, three multiethnic and multicultural democracies, who are totally down to contribute to building a new international vibe, to come together and speak up on global issues, and to strengthen their connecti

The Number of Fortune 500 Companies in Brazil

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  Mountains 2008 and 2009 saw the first two summits held totally in Russia. The four countries were extensively consulting on policy issues causing concern, thus the meetings were vibrant. For the BRICs, who have been advocating, "We need a supranational currency to flex on the USD, ya know?" the annoyance with the USD's status as the world reserve currency was a major setback. US budget deficits worry China since they might cause great inflation and weaken the US dollar, so undermining China's investment in US government debt. "Yo, we need a new international currency to flex instead of the USD, ya know?" the Chinese Central Bank is saying. (Roett; 2010:13). The money issue was under much discussion at the 2010 BRIC conference in Brazil. "We need a more stable, predictable, and diverse international money system, ya know?" the joint statement following the conference said. The BRICs resembled, "Yo, we really emphasized that." Emerging ma

Discovering America's Biggest Brazilian Hub

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    I gave it some thought for a while, and just as I was ready to react, Rostain revealed a small secret to me: "You know nothing as a result of the fact that the history that we believe we know is incorrect." It is a history that was written by people who were referred to as chroniclers, yet they rarely really witnessed what they recounted. It has a long history of deception. We have some knowledge of the colonial era, but it is a story of the exploitation of land, the use of torture, and the institution of slavery. It is not a particularly lovely history. The finding of a massive urban cradle, on the other hand, enables us to gain a deeper comprehension of the early participants in this history, in this case the indigenous people. Because of this, we are compelled to reconsider the entire human history of the Amazon. The findings of a study that had been in the works for close to thirty Using airborne laser-scanning technology (Lidar), Rostain and his colleagues were able

Exploring the Largest Brazilian Community in the USA

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    Between the years 1960 and 1970, the first records of Brazilian immigrants arriving in the United States were made. But beginning in the middle of the 1980s, when the economic situation in Brazil began to rapidly deteriorate as a consequence of hyperinflation brought on by the collapse of the military dictatorship, Brazilians started to leave the country and go to the United States. A bigger number of people united. In the United States, the state of Florida is commonly referred to as the "State of the Sun" or "The Sunshine State It should come as no surprise that Florida is the ideal location for the Brazilian immigrant community to settle in, given that Brazil is a country that is known for its sun and sea, warmth, joy, music, and beautiful people. In the United States, the state of Florida is commonly referred to as the "State of the Sun" or "The Sunshine State." The Latin culture that is deeply ingrained in this state, the close proximity of