Brazil Infrastructure

Brazil Infrastructure Challenges & Opportunities Yogui,R Business Advisor RYO Business Advisory & Consulting

Area : 8,514,877 km2 (5th) GDP (in 2008): $1.984 trillion (9th) Population (2009 estimate): 192,272,890 (5th) Official Language: Portuguese

“ Brazil was able to weather the global financial crisis with relatively minor impacts. The country was one of the last to go into recession in 2008 and among the first to resume growth in 2009. However, higher levels of sustained growth remain a major challenge for the Brazilian economy. Macroeconomic stability has laid the foundations, but average growth has remained below the global and Latin American averages even before the global crisis. Despite advances in microeconomic and institutional reforms, potential growth is still limited by various barriers and regulations, as well as inadequate infrastructure, poor business climate, high tax rates, high cost of credit and rigid labor markets. … Growth plan The Growth Acceleration Plan launched in 2007 to increase investment in infrastructure and provide tax incentives to encourage faster and more robust economic growth is credited as one of the major factors behind the country’s 5.1% growth in 2008 and its quick recovery from the crisis… The country also faces important development challenges in areas that include the combination of the benefits of agricultural growth, environmental protection and the sustainable development the Amazon and other biomes… “ Source : World Bank Website

More than US$ 111 billion to be invested by 2020, US$ 98.8 billion in Santos Basin.

Brazil Dec car sales cap record 2009-dealers SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Automobile sales in Brazil rose 16.41 percent in December from November, capping a record year in 2009, the nation's automobile dealers association said on Tuesday. Source : Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSPG00267120100105?type=marketsNews Booming economy, government programs help Brazil expand its middle class … Brazil's $1.3 trillion economy is bigger than those of India and Russia, and its per-capita income is nearly twice that of China. Recent discoveries by Brazil's state oil company are expected to make the country one of the world's biggest crude producers. An unwieldy bureaucracy and red tape have not slowed foreign investment, which at $45 billion in 2008 is three times as much as it was a decade ago… Source : Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/02/AR2010010200619.html

The 4 main opportunities in the Infrastructure are based on : Government Program: Growth Acceleration Plan Pre-Salt Investment World Soccer Cup : 2014 Rio de Janeiro - Olympic Games : 2016

Improve the performance in the local Infrastructure Industry to global rating in order to be ready for the demands of the coming years Professional & Technological Capacitation Improve Industry Capacity Global Best Practices & Local Content Language & Cultural Barriers Sustainability & HSE vs Productivity Better Collaboration Environment between Global + Local Companies Local Operation Start-up for Foreign Companies

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Brazil Infrastructure

by Ricardo Yogui on Jan 18, 2010

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