produces twenty percent of our Earth’s oxygen. It also offers the world’s highest level of biodiversity‚ meaning that it has the largest variety of living and non-living organisms. The Amazon rainforest covers nine countries in South America including Brazil‚ Colombia‚ Peru‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ and French Guiana. Today‚ the Amazon is being widely affected by deforestation and will never be able to retain its lost forests. Some of the main reasons of Amazonian deforestation are
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India‚ Brazil‚ and South Africa (IBSA): South - South Cooperation and the Paradox of Regional Leadership The article by Marco Antonio Vieira and Chris Alden mainly explains the beginnings and creation of IBSA and the purpose of this group. IBSA is a distinctive group‚ which brought India‚ Brazil and South Africa together. All three are big democracies with key markets from three dissimilar regions‚ confronting comparable dilemmas. All three nations are emerging‚ diverse‚ multi-national‚ multi-ethnic
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barrier as the country has a 35% tax rate on pharmaceutical products compared to a global average of 6.1%. Due to the fact that the government is highly support generic medicine than patent medicine‚ it has resulted 80% of the generics commercialized in Brazil being produced locally and limited access to innovative medicines. The Brazilian government also has great influential power on negotiating the flexibility on pricing strategies and purchasing policy with major companies‚ which in turn has led to
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The Itaipu Dam (Guarani: Itaipu‚ Portuguese: Itaipu‚ Spanish: Itaipú; Portuguese pronunciation: [itɐjˈpu]‚ locally: [ita.iˈpu]‚ Spanish pronunciation: [itaiˈpu]) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The name "Itaipu" was taken from an isle that existed near the construction site. In the Guaraní language‚ Itaipu means "the sounding stone". The dam is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual energy generation‚ generating
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group of four countries(Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China). The four original BRIC Countries comprise more than 2.8 billion people or 40 percent of the world‘s population‚ cover more than a quarter of the world’s land area over three continents‚ and account for more than 25 percent of global GDP Building Better Global Economic BRICs In 2001 and 2002‚ real GDP growth in large emerging market economies will exceed that of the G7. At end-2000‚ GDP in US$ on a PPP basis in Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China
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Christianity in Brazil It is almost impossible to consider any part of the Brazilian culture without considering Christianity. It is the dominant religion of Brazil and reflects every aspect of Brazilian way of life: Beliefs‚ Politics‚ Economy‚ National Holidays‚ Media reports‚ festive and community in general. In this essay I will try to focus on the lesser-known aspects and facts of Christianity embedded in the Brazilian culture. Brazil has a population of over 200 million habitants and one
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conditions‚ they now have a president elected for a 5-year term. There are many different political parties‚ and the type of government Paraguay runs under is constitutional republic. Unlike Paraguay’s surrounding countries‚ Argentina‚ Chile and Brazil‚ it is land-locked therefore giving them fewer resources than their neighbors. With a predominantly agricultural economy‚ Paraguay is most dependent on these products. Conflict
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In his article “ Time Talk‚ with an Accent” Robert Levine discusses about culture shock when he lived in Brazil and understand Brazilian people’s habit about time. When he began his scientific journey in his early career as a professor of psychology at Federal University in Niteroi‚ Brazil and he found the hardest part of his life about punctual time rather than different language‚ his own privacy‚ and standards of cleanliness issues. As it described in article Robert Levine was a young American
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just world and it grew to become one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies. It’s a Catholic Agency for International Aid Development and began in Australia in 1964. One major part that caritas works in is Latin America‚ they focus on Bolivia‚ Brazil‚ El Salvador‚ Haiti and Peru. Bolivia is one of Latin America’s poorest nations. It is landlocked in South America stretching from the central Andes to the Amazon basin. Bolivia has history of internal conflicts‚ dictatorship and tensions between
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Janeiro‚ in the streams of the highlands. Soon after‚ more paulistas moved to these areas in search for gold. Portugal heard of gold being found in Brazil and many of them also ventured out to Brazil in search for gold. By 1710 there were more white immigrants than the mixed race paulistas in the “gold zone”. The gold rush affected the growth of Brazil and the development of its interior by expanding the population (and having some Portuguese influence) and by opening up the frontier to settlement
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