Recently, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss the importance of Income-Transfer Policies - initiated in 1995 in Brasília with the Bolsa-Escola and transformed into the Bolsa Família in 2004 - in the reduction of world poverty.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Senate's Foreign Relations Committee approved on a 12-5 vote Venezuela's admission to Mercosur (the Common Market of the South) on Thursday.
The admission, which had already been approved by Brazil's House of Representatives, will now await President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's final sanction.
The subject has caused controversy in the committee: while the Brazilian government wants Venezuela to join Mercosur, the opposition is vehemently against it.
Senator Tasso Jereissati from the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party said Venezuela should not be admitted to Mercosur because Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's attitudes violated the ideals of democracy on which the bloc was based.
"We are opening a very dangerous precedent," he said.
However, Senator Romero Juca from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, which is allied to the government, said the admittance was a matter between states, not politicians.
"It is not the current Venezuelan government which is joining, but Venezuela, a neighboring country with which Brazil has always had good relations," the senator said.
If Venezuela joins Mercosur, the bilateral trade will be boosted, which is good for both parties, Juca said.
Venezuela is currently Brazil's fifth largest trade partner.
Venezuela's membership in Mercosur, which is formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, needs the approval of the congresses of the bloc's four member countries.
So far, Argentina and Uruguay have already given their approval. Paraguay will make a decision in 2010.
We Are the Wealth written by ch.c.,
October 31, 2009
With a Minimum Wage of below US$ 350.- per month ! And tens of millions still not entitled to that BIIIIGGGGG Minimum wages.
and to the idiot Ricardo C. Amaral "If Venezuela joins Mercosur, the bilateral trade will be boosted,"
What bilateral trade ? Is Brazil going to import Oil, food, technology or infrastructures from....VENEZUELA ??????
Proof of how idiot you are....Ricardo the brazilian expat who always caress the navel of....BRAZIL ! Why dont you go....BACK HOME...once and for all ? THE FUTURE IS THERE.....NOT WHERE YOU RESIDE NOW....AS PER YOUR OWN WORDS !
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NEWS ÁLBUM'S OF ARTIST SANDUCK VILLAS IN MALTA written by sanduck villas,
November 20, 2009
INFORM: EFJ EDITION/present in 238 nations of world with 6 álbum's of artist SANDUCK VILLAS. notice very important for the people thanks
"Human Capital" - That is not a new concept.
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