Brazil expecting record grain harvest
August 10th, 2012 - 1:14 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 10 (IANS/EFE) Brazil will reap a record grain harvest of 163.3 million tonnes this year, a gain of 2 percent over 2011, a statistics agency said.The ... Read more...
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Brazilian agribusiness faces shrinking global demand
August 8th, 2012 - 12:41 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 8 (IANS/EFE) Production in Brazil's agri-industrial sector fell 3.9 percent in the first half of the year compared with the same period of 2011, a statistics ... Read more...
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Brazilian economy grew 2.7 percent in 2011
March 7th, 2012 - 12:09 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 7 (IANS/EFE) The Brazilian economy grew 2.7 percent last year compared with 7.5 percent in 2010, a statistics agency said Tuesday.Brazil's gross domestic product climbed to ... Read more...
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Brazil’s jobless rate hits nine-year low
December 23rd, 2011 - 11:23 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's unemployment rate fell in November to 5.2 percent, its lowest level of the past nine years, authorities said Thursday.Last month's jobless rate was ... Read more...
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Five cities hold 25 percent of Brazil’s national wealth
December 15th, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 15 (IANS/EFE) A quarter of Brazil's wealth is concentrated in five cities that together represent less than 13 percent of the giant South American country's population, ... Read more...
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Brazil’s inflation hits 6.64 percent
December 9th, 2011 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS
Rio De Janeiro, Dec 9 (IANS) Brazil's 12-month inflation reached 6.64 percent in November, much higher than the 4.5-percent target, the country's statistics agency IBGE announced Thursday.Over the first 11 ... Read more...
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`Brazil’s economic slowdown is temporary’
December 7th, 2011 - 11:17 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 7 (IANS/EFE) The Brazilian economy stalled in the third quarter after eight consecutive quarters of growth, a sudden halt that the government both expected and considers ... Read more...
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Brazil to tackle economic crisis by more investment
September 3rd, 2011 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
Rio De Janeiro, Sep 3 (IANS) Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has said that the country would tide over the ongoing crisis by increasing consumption and investment."We will beat this crisis ... Read more...
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Brazil’s accumulated GDP slows
June 4th, 2011 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, June 4 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's accumulated growth rate for the 12 months ending in the first quarter of 2011 slowed to 6.2 percent, the Brazilian Institute of Geography ... Read more...
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Brazil jobless rate lowest in 8 years
December 18th, 2010 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 18 (IANS/EFE) Brazil's unemployment rate dipped to 5.7 percent last month, the lowest level since March 2002, authorities said.The jobless total fell 0.4 percent from October and was ... Read more...
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Brazil launches population census
August 2nd, 2010 - 6:47 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 2 (IANS/EFE) Some 190,000 enumerators equipped with handheld computers, digital maps and GPS devices will visit an estimated 58 million houses during this year's census in Brazil.
The 12th ... Read more...
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Brazil’s economy contracts after 17 years
March 12th, 2010 - 1:22 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 11 (DPA) The Brazilian economy contracted for the first time in 17 years in 2009, falling by 0.2 per cent, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) ... Read more...
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Brazil expecting near-record harvest
March 10th, 2010 - 11:30 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 10 (IANS/EFE) Brazil will bring in a grain harvest of 145.1 million tonnes this year, a volume very close to the record 145.8 million tonnes gathered in 2008, ... Read more...
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Brazil’s unemployment falls to 7.5 percent
November 27th, 2009 - 7:59 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Nov 27 (EFE) Brazil's unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in October, the lowest level of the year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said.
The September ... Read more...
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Brazil has second largest grain harvest in its history
September 9th, 2009 - 11:38 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, Sep 9 (EFE) Brazil reaped 134.34 million tonnes of grain in the 2008-09 harvest, the second biggest production in its history, state-owned food company Conab has said.
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1.4 million children below 13 work in Brazil
March 29th, 2008 - 1:50 pm ICT by admin
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Rio De Janeiro, March 29 (Xinhua) There were over 1.4 million illegal child labourers aged five to 13 in Brazil in 2006, the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (IBGE) said in a ... Read more...
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