The Brazilian Option

Brazil
The B of the BRIC
A door to South America
Population 191 M
Population growth 1.1 %
Real GDP growth 3.5 %
GDP domestic demand growth 4.5 %
GDP per 8,209
GDP per head 10,229

Brazil in the International Context

The gloomy IMF Published: April 22 2009
US output to contract by 2.8 per cent this year
1.3% drop in global output
Eurozone output will plunge 4.2 per cent, with Germany down 5.6 per cent
Long-suffering Japan is forecast to slow even more.
The gross domestic product across the advanced world will fall 3.8 per cent in 2009, with no growth next year.
Growth in emerging Asia will halve to just over 3 per cent and forecasts for parts of eastern Europe are better left unwritten.
The developing world actually looks to be the sole source of dynamism for the next couple of years,
led by Latin America,
the Middle East and parts of Asia and central Europe.

Large and well-developed
Agricultural
Mining
Manufacturing
Service sectors
Brazil's economy outweighs that of all other South American countries