Agência Brasil Brasília – One objective is to get culture and ideas once again flowing across the Atlantic Ocean between Africans and Brazilians. Another is to hold an international conference to raise funds for artistic presentations in Brazil and Africa. This is the cultural side of the African trip by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula
Author: Alexandre Rocha
Agência Brasil Brasília – One objective is to get culture and ideas once again flowing across the Atlantic Ocean between Africans and Brazilians. Another is to hold an international conference to raise funds for artistic presentations in Brazil and Africa. This is the cultural side of the African trip by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula
Agência Brasil São Paulo – Brazilian Minister of Finance, Antonio Palocci, says that Brazilian growth is stronger than expected. Market analysts have forecast GDP growth of 3.5% for the year. Accoring to Palocci, it is a rise in domestic consumption that is making the difference this year. "Easier credit, following a reduction in interest rates,
A study about foreign tourists announced yesterday by the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur) shows that 97.2% of those interviewed showed interest in returning. In all, 4.1 million people from other countries visited or did business in Brazil in 2003. In the first half of the year, international tourism generated US$ 1.62 billion to the country. The Arabs are still few, but the government and the sector is interested in attracting more visitors from the region.
The deal was closed last week during the international aviation fair in the United Kingdom. The aircraft will be delivered over the next four years.
Agência Brasil São Paulo – The Brazilian industrial sector is the economic segment that leads in job creation this year. Between January and May, 347,000 out of the 827,000 jobs created in Brazil were in the industrial sector. Those were legally registered, on-the-books jobs (as shown by the employment and unemployment general registry, Caged). In
The Brazilian government has already authorized the donation of US$ 10,000 for two forestry and landscaping programs organized by the United Nations (UN), with the objective of revitalizing the region and promoting local development. After withdrawal of Israeli troops in 2000, a plan for removal of land mines, largely funded by the United Arab Emirates, was put in place.
