Brazil rose from the tenth to the fifth position as a destination for the outsourcing of information and communications technology services from 2005 to 2007.
Author: Agência Brasil
The result of the study should be published by Science magazine. The work involved 300 scientists from 25 countries. It cost US$ 54 million and should help in genetic improvement of cattle.
So says the Social Studies director at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Márcio Wohlers. An Ipea survey shows that processing industry exports decreased 26% in the first quarter.
According to the National Telecommunications Agency, there are 153.67 million subscribers in the country. The market leader is operator Vivo, followed by Claro, Tim and Oi.
The volume of financing reached 42.5% of GDP in the month, against 41.8% in February.
Net assets entering the country in March reached US$ 844 mn, first positive result since May 2008. In fixed income, the difference between the entry and exit of foreign capital was US$ 708 mn.
Despite the bottlenecks, sector foreign sales grew US$ 800 million in 2007, to US$ 1.4 billion last year, according to an A.T. Kearney study.
Brasília – The Brazilian current transactions deficit (all of the operations with foreign countries) reached US$ 1.645 billion in March this year, a lower figure than the US$ 4.343 billion recorded in the same period of 2008. The negative result was higher than the figure forecasted by the Central Bank of Brazil for last month,
Rio de Janeiro – The Business Plan of the Brazilian state-owned oil company for the 2009-2013 period earmarks initial investment of 70 billion reals (US$ 31.3 billion) for developing blocs in its concession in the pre-salt layer. The investment, according to the company, is going to result in “unparalleled development of the heavy industry and
The information was supplied by Agriculture minister Reinhold Stephanes, who pointed out that the country has sufficient, but not yet explored reserves. Imports answer to 73% of domestic consumption.
In the third week of April, Brazil exported the equivalent of US$ 2.756 billion and imported US$ 2.428 billion. Thus far this month, the trade surplus is US$ 1.665 billion.
The opinion was expressed by the new president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro, Robson Barreto, who assumed the position last Friday.
Last Friday, the Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras and the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality presented the first vehicles to receive the label.
The president of the Brazilian chapter of the Business Council of Latin America, Marcus Vinicius Pratini de Moraes, stated that foreign trade is a tool for beating the crisis.
