...THE EMERGENCE OF BRAZIL AND ITS EDUCATION SYSTEM The Emergence of Brazil and Its Education System Chris, Keala, Monique Chaminade University THE EMERGENCE OF BRAZIL AND ITS EDUCATION SYSTEM 2 The Emergence of Brazil and Its Education System With increasing economic growth and widespread foreign investments, Brazil, one of the largest countries in South America, is by all accounts, emerging. While economic and population growth are supporting Brazil’s emergence, it is critical that Brazil's education system is strong, so that its people have the opportunity to fully emerge and compete as a developed country. Currently, Brazil’s population is approximately 200,000 million, a number accumulated from its large cities and rural areas. In the capital city of Brasilia there are an estimated million people and another 10 million in the nation’s largest city of São Paulo. Areas where there are high populations it most likely to see improvements in educational standards. The bigger challenge rests in the rural areas of Brazil, where approximately 18 million poor people are without education, health care and employment opportunities. The common education and economic challenges Brazil faces are similar to other emerging nations. Identifying the issues is simple; however sometimes the solutions are not easily identified. (CIA World Fact Book, 2013) Brazil’s Education Today Opportunities for a Brazilian’s education are decided through the great divide of economic classes. This...
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...The Economic side Brazil is: World’s second largest producer of organic foods World’s third largest producer of fruit World’s third largest consumer market for cosmetics World’ fifth largest country in population World’s seventh country in Internet usage World’s eighth largest consumer market World’s Twelfth largest economy World’s largest Catholic country Population: 205,716,890 (2012) Age Structure: 0-14 years: 26.2% (male 27,219,651/female 26,180,040) 15-64 years: 67% (male 67,524,642/female 68,809,357) 65 years and over: 6.7% (male 5,796,433/female 7,899,650) (2011est) Population growth rate: 1.102% (2012est) Birth Rate: 17.48 births/1,000 population (2012est) The average monthly income of Brazilian families in 2009(731 dollars) Income classes: Class A: above BRL 10.200 Class B: above BRL 5.100 Class C: above BRL 2.040 Class D: above BRL 1.020 Class E: below BRL 1.020 Total number of citizen in middle class: 95 Million (%52 of population) -2009 Lower class: 61 million. People live below the poverty line: %24. Business opportunities: Telecommunication business opportunities Franchise business opportunities Real Estate Investments Domestic demand is very strong, for example for cars, housing, or consumer durables GDP (purchasing power parity): $2.284 trillion (2011est) GDP - real growth rate: 2.8% (2011est) GDP - per capita (PPP): $11,600 (2011est) ...
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...is the guarantee to health, education, work and food for every individual. The state comes as a provider of these needs by creating social policies that ensure the survival for those living in extreme poverty. Based on this, income transfer programs were created, with the purpose of, in the short term, alleviate the problems arising from poverty and in the long term, investing in human capital, breaking the poverty cycle. A conditional cash transfer (CCT) is a type of income transfer program with the aim to reduce poverty by creating welfare programs conditional to the beneficiary’s actions. The government only transfers the money to people who meet certain conditions, which may include the enrolment of children in school, going to the doctor and receiving vaccinations, among others. Bolsa Familia is the largest conditional cash transfer in the world and it was implemented in Brazil (World Bank, 2005). and it consists in the financial aid to poor families as long as they keep their children often at school and vaccinated. The program aims to reduce poverty in the short and long term through conditional transfers of capital, which, in turn, aims to break the generational cycle of poverty from generation to generation. The elements that determine the outcome of an election change considerably depending on the country, its historical moment, social, economic and political conditions and on the candidates who intend to occupy the position. In Brazil, this dispute has been polarized...
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...(Watson and Achinelli 2008). The producers of these coffee beans are often small-scale farmers who are reliant on faceless consumers, large corporations. Coffee is now one of the world’s most traded goods, it is important for both consumers and producers to understand the impact the production of coffee is having on the farmers at a local level. The western culture of coffee is rapidly expanding. As the globalization of coffee spreads to consumers, corporations are becoming more and more disconnected from the coffee producers. The research will look at specific case studies of how the coffee impacts on Latin America. In addition, I’ll be also looking at the specific effects of economic change of coffee production on farmers and children in Brazil. Through the introduction of the crop into the Caribbean in the early 1700’s, became of economic importance in the mid-1800s. It has been in the last thirty years or so the practices and economy of coffee in Latin America has seen the greatest change as modernization and dependence on coffee production has grown. The coffee land in Latin America is becoming increasingly industrialized. The traditional practices of coffee production in Latin America were much more like gardening. With a pair of shears,...
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...Committed to this vision, Gershwin formed US-Brazil Connect, convened a consortium of leading community colleges, and partnered with Brazil’s Confederation of Industry (CNI) to create Conexão Mundo. With the support of a strong US-Brazil Connect team, this unique educational program now operates in 32 cities in Brazil and engages US participants from 22 states. It is also supported by 18 Brazilian Industry associations, six US community colleges, the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and a host of community organizations and corporations. In additional to the Conexão Mundo program, US-Brazil Connect has created innovative exchange for STEM education, executive exchange, urban planning, and faculty development. Prior to founding...
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...The country of Brazil resigns in South America, and encompasses the majority east side of the continent. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and is the largest country in South America. The country itself sizes within 3.3 million square miles bordering with almost every other South American country save for Ecuador and Chile. Brazil’s biggest cities Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo which hold roughly 18.3 million people with most of the population taking residence alongside the east coast per (http://worldpopulationreview.com, 2018). The country is also home to a substantial amount of rainforest and amazon landscapes. With coastal beaches and dense jungles surrounding many of the cities. Southeastern Brazil where the biggest cities...
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...Brazil under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road In 2001 Goldman Sachs had created the term “BRIC” to denote the group of emerging economies with high growth potential, including Brazil, Russia, India and China. But Brazil was the underperformer of the group and had some of the worst business-environment indicators among BRIC countries. “The second Lula administration is committed to a strategy of faster economic growth and higher living standards based on investment promotion, redistributive policies and higher levels of education”. For that Lula solicited his ministers for tax-reform proposals and fiscal incentives that could boost capital investments, mostly in infrastructure, to achieve growth rates of 5% per year. During his first term Lula reduced poverty and income inequality. Lula´s cash-transfer programs reduced the number of poor people significantly and brought down the Gini coefficient of income inequality to its lowest level in recent history. Lula maintained a policy of price and exchange rate stability, increased government savings, paid off the balance owed to the IMF and managed to reduce interest rates steadily. In order to grow like China and India, Brazil would have to tackle “the Brazil cost”: * To reduce the size and importance of the informal sector * Correct some macroeconomics deficiencies (e.g the high real interest rate and a high government debt to GDP ratio) * Reduce red tape * Improve the quality of public services (e.g education...
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...Executive Summary Brazil is Latin Americas largest economy and since the 1990’s has shown steady economic reforms. These reforms were necessary as Brazil suffered years of hyperinflation as high as 1000% and deficit spending. The government decided to pursue economic policies that changed the Brazilian economy into a dynamic market based system. Some of the key policy changes made were the privatization, of state owned enterprises, deregulation that allowed for greater domestic and foreign competition, perusing regional and multinational free trade agreements and the removal of red tape associated with foreign investment. The mainstay of all these reforms was the Plano Real (Real Plan). This real plan involved the scrapping of the old currency, the cruzeiro and replacing it with a brand new currency the real. The plan was to drive out inflation by adhering to strict monetary policies. The government decided to peg the real to the United States (U.S.) dollar and not allow it to depreciate more than 7.5 % against the US dollar per year. The government also increased the interest rates repeatedly to maintain the value of the real against the dollar. The economic reforms in Brazil were fairly successful, the country saw the inflation rate drop to 2% by 1998 and the economy grew by 3 to 4% annually as well as foreign investment soaring to $ 22 billion in 1998, but not all was well. Brazil was facing a huge trade deficit due to an overvalued real. There were also huge budget deficits...
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...2012 BRAZIL Unemployment Shadae L. Gardner 2012 BRAZIL Unemployment Shadae L. Gardner Brazilian unemployment affected young Brazilians the most by increasing the unemployment rate 2.3 times higher than usual. It will be less developed job skills and work experience for these young adults. Following a rate of steady decline, the youth unemployment rate rose 0.5 percent points to 18.5 percent average in 2009 while the total unemployment rate raised 0.2 percent average in 2009. By sector, the largest decrease in employment occurred in manufacturing due to a sharp fall in industrial production (12.5 per cent), mainly in export-oriented industries. Paid employment in the sector declined 5.3 per cent in 2009 while working hours contracted slightly (0.3 per cent) and real wages rose 2.5 per cent. At the total economy level, over 94,000 jobs were created during the first three quarters of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Employment growth by sector was highest in public administration, education and health (130,400 jobs created), followed by financial and business services (19,100) and construction (16,300). In addition to job losses in manufacturing, net job losses totaled 104,600 in utilities and 14,700 in wholesale and retail trade. In the third quarter of 2009, employment continued to decline in utilities (2.4 per cent) and wholesale and retail trade (0.16 per cent), albeit at a slower pace. Conversely, job growth continued to expand in public administration...
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...Brazil is amongst the leading developing nations and has sustained a decent economic growth for years (Alfaro & White, 2013). This commodity boom gave rise to the country’s export. However, the “Custo Brasil” was harming domestic manufacturing, while foreign opportunities threatened to overwhelm Brazilian marketplaces. The Custo Brasil has become the biggest factor in declining competitiveness of the country followed by poor infrastructure and undeveloped education system. According to Alfaro & White (2013), “poor infrastructure further hindered national growth.” In 2009, Brazil’s (2013) investment-to-GDP ratio dropped causing some analysts to suspect that weak infrastructure investment would be a future “bottleneck to growth.” Under the leadership of Dilma Rouseff, Brazil’s economic growth had gone stale and Rouseff’s administration battled to get the best balance between reducing inflation, maintaining exchange rate, and enhancing the competition of its exports. The government expenditures (2013) consume more than 40 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Its overall pace of regulatory reform had slowed and the ax burden is much heavier than other emerging economies. It could be government corruption, insecurity of private property rights, or it’s dependent on commodity exports. Rouseff and her administration worked to improve competitiveness by addressing the issue of improving infrastructure. Its strategy was the public-private partnership aiming to provide jobs...
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...Introduction Brazil is the economic leader in South America. It is located in eastern South America bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Almost 85% of South American countries border Brazil. Most of the country is located below the equator and it has a total area of 8,511,965 square kilometers (Brazil Facts) making it the fifth largest country in the world behind the U.S. Brazil has a distinctive topography, in the north and west you can find the Amazon Basin with tropical-like weathers. Brazil is also facing deforestation losing about 52,000 square miles of amazon each year. In the south east of the country you will find its highlands and plateaus. Brazil also has a distinctive climate. The climate is generally classified into five subtypes: equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical and subtropical but 90% of the country is mostly considered tropical. (Climates of Brazil) Social Economic and Cultural Factors As for being the fifth largest country in the world land wise, Brazil is also the fifth largest country when it comes to population. According to the CIA Brazil’s population in 2012 was over two hundred million. 26.2% of the population in 2011 is between 0-14 years of age, 67% of the population in 2011 is between 15-64 years of age, and 6.7% of the population in 2011 is 65+ years of age.(CIA Fact book) Because Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese the primary language in this country is surprisingly Portuguese! Other slightly common languages you might also hear are...
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...BRIC: Currency Depreciation in Russia and Brazil ◎D0131160 Irina Chen ◎D0131187 Gloria Chang ◎D0173297 Sunny Chiu ◎D0173270 Doris Chen ◎D0173670 Athena Du Contents Abstract ..................................................................................... 2 Brazil ......................................................................................... 3 Why Brazil become the BRIC ................................................... 3 What was behind Brazil’s Depreciation? ................................. 8 Russia ...................................................................................... 13 Why Russia become the BRIC?.............................................. 13 What was behind the Ruble depreciation? ........................... 19 Comparison and Similarities between Russia and Brazil ....... 24 In the Future ........................................................................... 25 The Future of Brazil ............................................................... 25 The future of Russia .............................................................. 25 Conclusion ............................................................................... 26 Contributor ............................................................................. 27 Reference ................................................................................ 27 1 Abstract The BRIC is the acronym of four nations, including Brazil, Russia, India and China. The conception of...
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...Race and Struggle of Samba Samba exists throughout Brazil, peculiarly in the states of Bahia, Mahranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo. Samba has two popular forms of expression: music and dance. A majority of people identify samba as the musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro. Although samba is commonly identified with Brazil, the start of samba begins in Africa. According to Marc Hertzman, the origins of samba in Brazil can be trace back to the 1800s-a time when Brazil was still in the process of finding its own national identity. After Brazil freed the last of its remaining slaves, Brazil faced racial and economic divides, but with all this issues samba emerged as a building block of national identity. Samba is something unique that could be embraced by all Brazilians. Samba had an impact on Brazil as nation, but also it had an enormous impact on the individual and the African-Brazilian population. Throughout the world’s history, music has had the capability to tell the story of many slaves. Slaves in both the United States and Brazil had slave hymns. For example, the famous song Wade In the Water, which now commonly associated with the Underground Railroad. Once slavery ended, the sounds of those who were discriminated against changed. In the United States, slave hymns became the sound of jazz and the blues and in Brazil, samba was created. Samba is a word that is believed to come from the West African Bantu word, meaning “to pray” or “to invoke the spirits...
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...| | Demographics Brazil is the largest country in South America that specializes in agriculture mining, and the manufacturing service, however, the Brazilian Aftermarket is one that is on the rise. Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world that is home to 205 million people, with the majority of the people living along the coast. The median age is 30.7 with 43.7% of the population being in the 25-54 year range. More than half of Brazil’s population, 53% is considered to be the middle class, however, poverty levels still remain high. The United States, on the other hand, is the third most populous country with 322 million people. Depending on the location, and class model used, the middle class can constitute anywhere from 25%-66% of American households. The median age is also a little higher than that of Brazil’s at 36.8 years (The World Factbook , 2015). The Market Brazil has a very large market with many positive advantages. The nation’s highly protected economy offers limited opportunities for significantly increased exports. The United States shipped $1.1 Billion in auto parts exports to Brazil in 2014. The International Trade Administration ranked Brazil as the 23 best market for original equipment parts and 27 for aftermarket products through 2020. For most firms seeking access to the Brazilian Market, it is through the supply chains of vehicle assemblers or large parts firms that are already producing in the market. Brazil is the fourth largest auto...
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...The intention of this paper is to discuss about the advantages and disadvantages for Ecuador if it becomes a member of the Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur). Currently, the world is going through a change in important ways in the economy, the importance of belonging to an economic bloc is that through this you can get "mutual benefits in international trade" The Mercosur as we know is a South American economic bloc that “is integrated by Argentina, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay, the Oriental Republic of Uruguay and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” (Exhibit 1). The countries that belong to the MERCOSUR are differentiated by the alliance of values held and reflected in its democratic and pluralistic societies, the protection of human rights, the environment and sustainable development. MERCOSUR is also committed to strengthening democracy, eradicate poverty and strengthen the economic and social development of the members with equity. In recent years the President of Ecuador Econ. Rafael Correa expressed his desire to become a member of this economic bloc, but what does it mean to Ecuador to join to this organization? This economic bloc offers attractive proposals for countries; among them is the establishment of a common external tariff, plus the free movement of goods and services between the member countries. For a developing country like Ecuador, it is difficult to make the decision of belonging to an economic bloc, as it must evaluate...
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