A report by the Brazilian federal government and the United Nations informs that the percentage of the population in that condition fell from 8.8% in 1990 to 4.2% in 2005. This, according to the survey, shows that the country has attained one of the Millennium Development Goals before the deadline, which is 2015.
Author: Gabriel Kawamura Pomerancblum
Brazilian imports of pipes and holders from the Arab world, including narghiles, stood at US$ 125,000 between January and July this year. In the same months of last year, they were only US$ 18,800. The narghile is a device for smoking traditionally used by the Arabs, and whose consumption is spreading in Brazil.
Brazilian imports of pipes and holders from the Arab world, including narghiles, stood at US$ 125,000 between January and July this year. In the same months of last year, they were only US$ 18,800. The narghile is a device for smoking traditionally used by the Arabs, and whose consumption is spreading in Brazil.
The importance of developing countries to the Brazilian foreign trade is already greater than that of wealthy nations such as the United States. The information was supplied by the director of the Department of International Negotiation at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations, Evandro Didonet.
The state-owned company will build two alcohol pipes by 2010. One of the enterprises is going to link the city of Senador Canhedo, in the state of Goiás (MW), to the port of São Sebastião, in the state of São Paulo (SE). The second pipe, which is still at an early study phase, should connect Campo Grande, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (MW), to the Port of Paranaguá, in the state of Paraná (S).
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazil exported US$ 3.232 billion and imported US$ 2.494 billion during the fourth week of the current month (from the 20th to the 26th). The result drove the weekly surplus up to US$ 738 million, and the monthly surplus after 18 business days up to US$ 2.401 billion. The figures were
Developing joint research projects, exchanging students and professors, and trading experiences were the main subjects discussed yesterday during the Brazil-Lebanon Academic Conference, held in the Brazilian capital Brasília by the Ministry of Education. The event, which will continue today, counts on six Lebanese professors.
Developing joint research projects, exchanging students and professors, and trading experiences were the main subjects discussed yesterday during the Brazil-Lebanon Academic Conference, held in the Brazilian capital Brasília by the Ministry of Education. The event, which will continue today, counts on six Lebanese professors.
According to the Brazilian ambassador in Riyadh, Isnard Penha Brasil Jr., businessmen in the Arab country are discovering Brazil as an investment destination. The diplomat is in Brazil on vacation, and had a meeting yesterday with leaders at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo.
Foreign sales from the state yielded US$ 7.1 billion in the first seven months of 2007. Nevertheless, a 1.5% decrease was recorded in July, when revenues stood at US$ 1.2 billion. The main product shipped was oil, which accounted for 58% of the export basket.
The owner and designer of the brand Dust, Kamal Soueid, went on a market research trip to Dubai last month. Based in the city of São Paulo (southeast Brazil) the brand owns two wholesale stores in the Brás neighbourhood, a clothing and textile hub. Dust already sells its boldly styled jeans to approximately ten countries, and wants to export to the United Arab Emirates.
From the month of January until Agust 23rd, 477 units were shipped from the Port of Paranaguá (in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná) to the Middle East and North Africa, compared with 371 during the same period of last year. Total exports of vehicles through the terminal grew by 71% in the first seven months of 2007.
