Tag: debt

Canceling Brazil and LatAm’s Debts Is No Charity, But an Act of Fairness

At the beginning of July, the G8 nations set forth a precedent-setting “100 percent” ...

Brazil Spends More on Debt than on Health and Education

The Argentine minister of Education, Science and Technology, Daniel Filmus, says that Latin American ...

Brazil Starts Talks on Converting Its US$ 202 Billion Foreign Debt

In July Brazil will begin negotiations with creditor nations to convert part of its ...

The Rich Want Brazil and the Rest of the Poor in Debt

Less developed countries’ external “debt” impedes their economic development and attempts to reduce poverty. ...

Brazil Wants to Use 1/4 of Its US$ 200 Billion Foreign Debt on Education

The idea was born at an international conference in Mexico in 2004. Brazil, Argentina, ...

Brazil Presents in May Plan of Swapping Debt for Education Investment

Since March, professors at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) have been studying Brazil’s initial ...

Brazil’s Debt Is the Talk of 19 Countries

Specialists in the administration of government debt from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries ...

Brazil Prays IMF to Pardon Brazil’s and All Poor Nations’ Debts

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva once again defended pardoning poor countries’ debts ...

Brazil’s Plan: Default on Foreign Debt to Fund Education

The idea is simple. Take some of the money that is used to pay ...

Brazil’s Debt Falls US$ 2 Bi, Still US$ 329.7 Bi

Brazil’s net government debt fell in September for the third straight month, to a ...

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