Brazil - the country of the future - and always will be

A superb new report from the BBC’s Matt Frei in Sao Paulo which looks at the gaps between rich and poor in booming Brazil. “Untangling the cycle of poverty is complex and daunting” but Brazil’s rising economic prosperity offers the opportunity for many millions of her poorest people to aspire to join the middle classes.

Unit 1 Micro: Poverty and Inequality and Market Failure [12 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazilian Growth and Sustainability [12 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Brazilian coffee buffer stock hit by falling prices [29 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Economics: Panorama - Poor America [17 Feb 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Winning the War on Deforestation [5 Feb 2012]
Video Resources on Rising Inequality [23 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazil Overtakes UK in Economic Size [26 Dec 2011]
Economics of Deforestation [20 Dec 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: America’s hour-glass economy [9 Nov 2011]
Using Timetric in the Classroom [27 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Economic Growth and Inequality [14 Sep 2011]
Development Econ: Wealth and Inequality in China [10 Jun 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Poverty [15 Apr 2011]
Video Resources on UK Relative Poverty [7 Mar 2011]
Tony Atkinson on Inequality - LSE Lecture Notes [1 Mar 2011]
More inequality - and it’s a good thing! [2 Feb 2011]
Using Google Docs - Minimum Wages [27 Nov 2010]
Brazil’s battle with hyperinflation [27 Oct 2010]
The Costs and Benefits of Inequality [17 Oct 2010]
Data Mining on Global Poverty [14 Sep 2010]
Inequality and the risk of financial crisis [25 Aug 2010]
Brazilian aviation reaches new heights [25 May 2010]
What the poverty figures show [25 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - Changing Pattern of Global Trade & Investment [2 May 2010]
BRIC economies [24 Apr 2010]
Living in a multi-polar world economy [23 Apr 2010]
RES Essay Competition - Inequality Title [1 Apr 2010]
Brazil looks to diversify [8 Mar 2010]
More on poverty strategies [4 Feb 2010]
Child Poverty and Pensioner Poverty [2 Feb 2010]
Assorted Links (27 Jan 2010): Focus on poverty and inequality [27 Jan 2010]
Low pay, discrimination and monopsony power in the labour market [26 Jan 2010]
Jimmy’s Global Harvest [8 Jan 2010]
Taxing hot money - is Brazil getting it wrong? [22 Oct 2009]
Income inequality in the USA [9 Oct 2009]
BRIC Watch: Brazil climbs out of recession [11 Sep 2009]
One family in six in the UK has no one in work [27 Aug 2009]
What is poverty? [31 Jul 2009]
OECD Review of the Brazilian Economy [14 Jul 2009]
Investing the proceeds of the oil bonanza [8 Sep 2008]
Unjust rewards? [4 Aug 2008]
Brazil - on course to be a superpower? [5 May 2008]
Brazil’s widening wealth gap [28 Apr 2008]
Engine rooms for the world economy [3 Feb 2008]

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