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Rebuilding Brazil's economy requires more than BRICS and China

Rebuilding Brazil's economy requires more than BRICS and China

Update: 2017-08-15
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Brazil's economy was blazing along in the first decade of this century, turbo-charged by China's appetite for commodities. And there was the added boost of being named, by a Goldman Sachs exec, one of the rising economies to watch — the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Then China's economic growth slowed, demand for commodities dropped and Brazil fell into its worst recession in a century, intensified by its worst corruption scandal ever. Brazil is beginning to emerge now, after two years of economic contraction and political turbulence. What are its prospects for again being seen as one of the great rising economic powers of this century? Host Mary Kay Magistad visited Rio de Janeiro to find out.
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Rebuilding Brazil's economy requires more than BRICS and China

Rebuilding Brazil's economy requires more than BRICS and China