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Luxury Goods Target Brazil

By Eliot Brockner | Published: February 2, 2011
Brazil’s wavering on a contract estimated at more than $4 billion to French airplane manufacturer Dassault has not discouraged the French. The product and consumer, however, could not be more different from the fighter jets that were destined for the Brazilian Air Force. Less than seven months ago the Comité Colbert, a French umbrella organization consisting of [...]
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Brazil’s Tax and Debt Burden

By Rachel Glickhouse | Published: March 17, 2010
Brazil is in bloom, economically speaking, and the international media has stirred up a frenzy of excitement about the robust and ever-expanding Brazilian economy. But as I’ve written several times before, this trend of stability and wealth mixed with blind optimism is not necessarily sustainable in the long run, and if [...]
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