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Brazil: World
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Actually, this is about how Brazil is perceived abroad. Bananas, crime, naked women, burning forests, Corcovado, coffee, soccer, football, samba, beautiful beaches, dead indians, more crime, Pele, Sugarloaf, and so on - take your pick. All of these are common images of Brazil in both North America and around the world. What is the real Brazil? Do the images and stories in the media about Brazil reflect reality? Is Brazil good or bad, fun or scary, rich or poor, beautiful or ugly?
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Brazil is crossed by both the Equator and Tropic of Capricorn, and as such is home to a vast array fauna and flora, natural environments, as well as extensive natural resources. The Brazilian population is concentrated along the coastline and in a few large urban centers in the interior. While Brazil is one of the most populous nations in the world, population density drops dramatically as one moves inland.[4]
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClearTech and NeuStar NSR today announced their team has been selected by the Brazilian Association of Telecommunications Resources (ABR) to provide number portability in Brazil beginning in August 2008. Five international applicants submitted proposals for providing number portability services in Brazil. This number portability implementation will be the second-largest of its kind in the world after the United States of America.
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The Government of Brazil has undertaken an ambitious program to reduce dependence on imported oil. In the mid-1980s, imports accounted for more than 70% of Brazil's oil and derivatives needs; the net figure is nearing zero. Brazil is expected to become a net exporter of oil in 2007 as output from the Campos Basin continues to increase. Brazil is one of the world's leading producers of hydroelectric power. Of its total installed electricity-generation capacity of 90,000 megawatts, hydropower accounts for 66,000 megawatts (74%).
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Brazil is a major exporter in the global produce trade. Already a world leader in the export of coffee, orange juice, and soybeans, and there is no reason to believe that Brazil will not develop into a major exporter of juice oranges, apples, grapes. In 1998, Brazil exported US$14.7 billion in agricultural products, about 10 percent of which was shipped to the United States. However, Brazil's biggest agricultural export market is the European Union, with over 35 percent of all agricultural products shipped there.
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Brazil, one of America's largest trading partners, exported goods valued at $21.3 billion in 2003 to the U.S., of which, 14 percent enjoyed duty-free status. In January 2001, due to a petition from the IIPA for a chronic lack of enforcement of copyright laws, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) placed Brazil on the Special 301 Watchlist. On April 4, 2005 of this year, USTR gave Brazil six months to reverse its intellectual property abuses or loose its favored trade status with the United States. In spite of this warning from the USTR, Brazil's government has publicly announced that it will seize American patents of drugs so that, according to recent reports on Brazilian President Lula's visit to Africa, it can become a generic drug exporter to the developing world.
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