Aktuelle Informationen und Kommentare zum brasilianischen Wirtschaftsraum
After the Brazilian elections one argued about side effects on Brazilian economy – at least to some sectors. That it not necessarily must be negative outlines a report recently published („Re-election guarantees support to carmakers“).
The main topic of this article is an initiative of the Brazilian government called INOVAR-AUTO, which supports companies producing and selling automotive technology in Brazil. The main benefit is an tax reduction up to 30% of IPI (tax on industrial prodcuts).
After the second round of voting on Sunday Oct 26th, Dilma Rousseff (PT) has won her second legislative period. Having a look at the results in different regions, we find a clear support in the Northern and Northeastern parts of Brazil. This isn’t a surprise, rather an result of her politics, supporting the poor. Nevertheless it was a really close run (Dilma 51,6%, Aécio 48,4%) and one get’s the impression, that she beginning to understand the voter’s message – maybe under support by Lula.
After a first election period at Oct 5th, the Brazilian Election are still topic of international discussion. From the three major candidates Dilma Roussef, Aecio Neves and Marina Silva, only Dilma and Aecio are still in the election process. Surprisingly Marina has announced the support for Aecio Neves – in spite of their political proximity to PT. Still unclear what the Brazilians can anticipate, some the international press has already chosen their position. Please read the following article of the ECONOMIST.
Please have a look at our updated seminar program 2014.
You will find seminars, workshops and presentations in different organizations, but also open seminars taking place in our office site or nearby locations.
The program will be updated periodically – maybe valuable to have a look time after time.
In 2016 we will have the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Everybody is complaining about the Brazilian delay and missing or pants project management. But what about the actual games? What Brazil could learn from Russia?
(1) Scandals are common – an actual report about hotels around Sotchi describes the first olympic scandal . As we can see on some remarkable pictures, „we have a situation here“ in Sotchi. Besides „yellow“ water, there are other very interesting insights. Just have a look at the „banheiros„. We could argue, its just some kind of discipline and simply part of the games, as we can see here.
(2) Brazilians are somehow cosmopolitans – able to adapt to somehow weired environments and
(3) nobody is perfect – who cares about missing infrastructure and dysfunctional equipment – just have fun!
The complete NTV story and all pictures you can find here.
A very nice summary of the activities and comments along the German-Brazilian year 2013/2014 are shown in the following video. The contributions are in Portuguese with German subtitles. In particular valuable are the statements of German-Brazilian industry leaders. >> Learn more.
As announced some months ago, today the renovation of the city area of Rio de Janeiro started in a new area. The demolition of the PERIMETRAL is almost done. Please see the following videos ( Link ).
If you are interested in details about the demolition and logistics please have a look here and here.
Further, a new and different view of the nedesigned portal area of Rio de Janeiro we can gain through new mobility concepts like the VLT – Veiculo Leve Sobre Trilho as seen here and here.
Some years ago in Nov 2009, an interesting issue of THE ECONOMIST commented the extraordinary development of the Brazilian economic area (read more).
Now in Oct 2013 some years later, a new article describes some new insights and questions former positive findings (read more). Without any doubt, the Brazilian government needs to reshape the economic frame towards clear investments in logistic infrastructure and industrial growth, avoiding further deindustrialization.
And the starting situation is not so bad – the actually 7th large economy receives appreciable cash inflow from commodity sales – an ideal situation for reinvestment. On the other hand and as a consequence, the high import taxes must be lowered, at least to enforce the needed and necessary industrial dynamic.