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2004 -
August 2004
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 Every year, 470,000
new businesses open in Brazil, but 43 percent
will close their doors before their third anniversary. The main
reason they do not survive is weak management skills
resulting in a shortage of working capital and other financial
problems, along with unsound or nonexistent market knowledge.
by: Stefan
Barth
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 Brazil is encouraging
the cultivation of castor-oil plants and
dendê palms in the poorest regions of the country in order to
produce biodiesel. According to the Brazilian government, this
program might generate over 150 thousand jobs in 2005. Biodiesel
can also be used to generate electricity in isolated communities.
by: Ana
Paula Marra
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 The number of inmates
in Brazilian jails has risen from 114,000
in 1992 to 300,000 this year. Brazil's Minister of Justice, Márcio
Thomaz Bastos is calling for a change, so that alternative sentences
can be used more frequently, reducing the population of prisons.
He also wants the courts to speed up the release of prisoners
by: Stefan
Barth
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 Brazil's singer-composer
Ivan Lins is not much of a showman,
but he has a lot of charisma, which definitely helps him carry the
show. He is also the writer of many huge hits. Some of them were
recorded by artists such as The Manhattan Transfer, Sarah Vaughan
and many others. The inclusion of most of those pleased everyone.
by: Ernest
Barteldes
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2004 -
August 2004
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 08:54 |
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 One of the major problems
in the Brazilian Amazon is land- holding:
24 percent of the land is privately owned; 29 percent are
protected areas, which include Indian territories. The remaining
47 percent are public areas, devolved or disputed, in which
deforestation, illegal occupation, and squatting are rampant.
by: Marina
Domingos
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