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OECD advises Brazil against more fiscal stimulus

With an expected four percent growth in 2010, Brazil is already recovering from the economic meltdown.

Profile: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

An article on the Brazilian president with an 80% popularity rating.

Global Financial Crisis: Is Brazil a Bystander?

The "doom and gloom" of the global financial crisis has yet to impact Brazil.

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Quizzes

GD 2006 Quiz 4 - Brazil

After decades of economic volatility, Brazil is finally enjoying steady growth, despite a political scandal surrounding the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Will Brazil continue on course toward stability? What impact will the scandal have on Brazil's economy, on its South American neighbors and on the U.S.?

In the Classroom »

Classroom Resources for Great Decisions 2009 from Scholastic - Rising Powers

FPA and Scholastic have partnered to bring additional resources, all free, on the Great Decisions 2009 topic: Rising Powers. Articles from The New York Times Upfront, the current events newsmagazine for teens published with The Times.

U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program

The U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program, jointly administered by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the Brazilian Ministry of Education, provides grants for up to four years to consortia of at least two academic institutions each from Brazil and the United States. The program fosters the exchange of students and faculty within the context of bilateral curricular development

Europe Meets Latin America: A Forum for Young Leaders

Europe Meets Latin America: A Forum for Young Leaders (EMLA) will explore the question of how Cultural Diplomacy can create sustainable intercultural relations between the individual countries of Europe and Latin America, and the regions in general, based on dialogue, understanding and trust.

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Recommended Readings

The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

What is it like to govern one of the world's most notoriously ungovernable, most vibrant countries? Brazil's former president offers a candid, wry, illuminating view.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha.