The GDP of Brazil grew over the last three months of 2012, to R$ 1.11 trillion (US$ 555 billion). In the accumulated result for 12 months, the growth is 1.2%.
Author: Agência Brasil
The value was US$ 2.1 billion in April, the greatest result for the period since 1969. The Central Bank stated that the growth of reserves is the result of greater income.
The Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is listed immediately below Germany’s foreign minister Angela Merkel on the ranking of American magazine Forbes. In the previous survey she had ranked third.
Brazil will be the only Latin American country to send a head of state to the celebration of the organisation’s anniversary. Dilma Rousseff should travel to Ethiopia next Thursday (23).
For the first time this month, imports exceeded exports, according to weekly results released this Monday (20th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development.
After five weeks stable, financial institutions have revised down their estimates for the growth of Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product in 2013, according to a Central Bank survey.
The region received the sum in foreign direct investment last year, according to the Eclac. It was the highest amount ever, up 6.7% from 2011.
The third main continent will have the youngest working population in the world by 2040, according to the Economic Commission for Africa. In 20 years, Africans will total two billion people.
The National Treasury sold US$ 750 million in treasury bills in Europe and US$ 50 million in Asia. The bills are mature in 2013 and the rate of return is 2.75% a year.
Performance improved again in March from February, after two consecutive months in decline, according to the National Confederation of Industry. March-on-March, the result remained stable.
The Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) bets on 185 million tonnes harvested in Brazil this year. The previous crop generated 161.2 million tonnes.
Brazilian ambassador Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo was chosen director general of the World Trade Organisation on Tuesday (7). He defeated the Mexican candidate and will be sworn in on August 31st.
The investment plan was announced this Monday during a meeting of company executives with the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.
The Centre-South of Brazil should harvest 589.6 million tonnes of sugarcane in the next crop, according to forecasts by the sector association. The previous crop totalled 532.7 million tonnes.
