The funds will be transferred to a UN agency to aid people who have fled from Syria to Lebanon.
Author: Agência Brasil
Brazil has announced a new concession programme. The plan is to transfer to private companies 7,500 km of highways and 10,000 km of railways. The expectation is to sign contracts in 2013.
According to the Brazilian Central Bank, the outflow of dollars surpassed the inflow in the country from August 1st to 10th.
The Brazilian oil company reached 2.1 million barrels refined per day as of last Sunday (12th). Earlier this month, the enterprise had set several other records.
According to the Central Bank’s Focus bulletin, analysts have reduced their growth estimate for the Brazilian economy for the second time in 2012, from 1.85% to 1.81%.
The level of employment has dropped in June, with 0.2% reduction over May and 1.8% over the same period last year. This was the fourth month running of negative results.
Mendes Ribeiro (Agriculture) said that Brazilian grain production should reach 166 million tonnes this year. The IBGE, however, forecasts a crop of 163 million tonnes.
The period will be much more favourable to the Brazilian economy, according to the heads of public and private institutions.
The president will have a busy second-half schedule. She will open the UN General Assembly in September in the USA and partake in the Summit of South American-Arab Countries (Aspa) in October.
According to the Brazilian institute of Geography and Statistics, activity has picked up, especially in Amazonas and Espírito Santo. Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Gerais and São Paulo also posted growth.
Automakers operating in the country manufactured 297,800 units in July. Sales increased by a much higher rate than the number of motor vehicles produced.
This Monday (6th), the oil company’ president Graça Foster said results will not be negative in quarters to come. The performance was influenced by depreciation of Brazil’s real.
According to figures disclosed by the Central Bank, Brazilian companies spent a net US$ 2.8 billion with purchases from companies abroad in the first half.
The improvement of the economy of Brazil is gradual, according to an evaluation on Friday (3) by the Central Bank of Brazil.
