Factors that have enabled Brazil to become a rapidly developing economy.

Brazil is a leading emerging economy in the world today. Other economies in this category include; Russia, India, South Africa and china excluding Hong Kong and Macau. There has been a real transformation in the Brazil economy in the 21st century. The country 's location is in Latin America and is one of the motivating economies in the world market. It has experienced rapid growth, price stability, and fiscal responsibility (Czinkota 2010).

The process of integration of economies around the world, known as globalisation, has catalysed the development of Brazil as a powerful emerging economy, through the expansion of trade and investment. Emerging countries are defined as those progressing toward becoming more advanced, through rapid growth and industrialisation. Consequently, Brazil’s rapid economic growth has secured its place in BRICS, an association of five major emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

For More than two decades Brazil suffered badly from high inflation, economic decline, domestic and foreign debt. In 1993 country’s Inflation reached 30 percent a month and as a result the country wouldn’t sustain growth. After many unsuccessful plans to control the inflation, finally Real Plan of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, minister of finance, worked out and brought the inflation down to a single digit.

However, the economy recovered rapidly during 1968 to 1973 with averaging over 10 percent per annum. The GDP also increased at a rate above 5 percent per annum between 1974 and 1980, except for 1978 (see Exhibit 2). However, Brazil had incurred an extremely high level of indebtedness due to the support of this massive development program. The high interest rates on dollar funds and the unwillingness of foreign lenders to advance additional loans caused a deep economic recession in Brazil. Interest rates directly affect the credit market (loans) because higher interest rates make borrowing more costly. As a result, Brazilian government who aimed to balance the payment had to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for funds.

“The BRIC acronym, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China, originated in a Goldman Sachs paper – Building Better Global Economic BRICs – as part of an economic modelling exercise to forecast global economic trends over the next half-century.”

3. Part of the reason the World Bank’s standard Structural Adjustment Policies has been counterproductive partially because of unfortunate timing. Reduce government spending caused a recessionary effect, decreasing demand and increasing unemployment hurt nations. Strict monetary policy raised interest rates and helped to further suffocate investment demand and access to capital for poor farmers and low-income entrepreneurs. Currency devaluation did make exports cheaper but at a time when export markets for primary goods were oversupplied and prices were falling. Import cost also rose making it more expensive for domestic producers to obtain new technology and replacement parts. In addition, privatization of government enterprises also increased efficiency, which was accompanied by downsizing, which resulted in unemployment for thousands of the middle class. At this time the reductions in

There are two ways the economy can be assisted in growing and sustaining itself. First through fiscal policy from the national governments help of changing taxes and spending, then Monetary policy, the managing of money. The two are supposed to work together to help create a better economy but, at times fall short. Leaders in the government for the most part have a top priority to stay in their position, with that in mind they tend to give the people the immediate satisfaction they want which is increased spending and reduced taxes. With this approach fiscal policy is considered expansionary, restrictive monetary policy is what is needed to stop inflation to counteract this.

As demonstrated above, Brazil has created a trend in rising GDP since 2003 by steadily improving their macroeconomic stability (Central Intelligence Agency, 2012). Analysis of the rises or decreases in real GDP are the most accurate method to determine the state of a nation’s economy. The rises in Brazil’s real GDP demonstrate that this country currently has a healthy, thriving economy. In addition, an accurate analysis of the nation’s current, past, and projected GDP provides policy makers with a basis for determining economic and fiscal policies. Currently, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has indicated her intention of continuing the former economic policies, including sound fiscal management due to the economic growth during the former President Lula’s administration (U.S. Dept. of State, 2011). As an example of Brazil’s thriving real GDP; according to The World Bank, the nominal GDP (represented in U.S. dollars) for the year 2010 was $2,087,889,553,822 (The World Bank Group, 2012). As an economic principle, “both real and nominal GDP increase during an

It should be noted that the Brazilian agriculture has not always been a thriving sector. The country’s increased population growth also elevated the need for food. The elevated need for food created a gap between what was needed and what was produced. However, in 1972, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, better known as Embrapa, was created with the goal being to develop agriculture in the country through the generation and transfer of knowledge from scientists to farmers.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Brazil was the tropical country with the richest Western civilization. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and, on account of its size, is characterized by a diversified climate. Sao Paulo, where the impact of tropical weather is moderate because of its height, was the center of economic development, agriculture and industry (Baer, 1995).

Brazil, like many Latin American nations, is a country undergoing rapid change. The nation’s push to transition from newly industrialized to develop country has forever altered Brazil’s physical geography, level of development, and economic activity.

On the surface, expanding agriculture into the rainforest seems to be a fast and simple way to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, but in reality, the resulting environmental damage--in addition to being intrinsically harmful--would actually worsen the hunger that the expansion is trying to solve. In 2014, Brazil was removed from the UN World Hunger Map, an accomplishment that Social Development Minister Tereza Campello credits to “a mix of public policies and an increased food supply” (“World Hunger Map”). Unsurprisingly, at least a significant portion of the “increased food supply” came from agricultural expansion in the Amazon Rainforest, which currently hosts approximately 200 million cows (“Cattle Ranching”). Unfortunately for Brazil, its accomplishment of ending famine within its borders may be soon reversed.

Brazil is Latin America’s largest economy and the world’s seventh-largest economy with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $2.3 trillion. It is also considered one of the BRIC countries, which consists of China, India, Russia, and Brazil. They are all part of this group due to their promising emerging markets and potential to be a part of the world’s most influential economies.

The economic benefits of deforesting the Amazon are endless and with the nation of Brazil in control roughly 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest (Oswald 1), one can only imagine the economic prosperity it brings to the country. For instance, 65-75% of the land used after deforestation (Oswald 1) goes towards creating space cattle ranching which is big business in Brazil as Brazil is the largest exporter of cattle in the world. The exported volume of cattle achieved 264 822 tons in 2012, and generated USD 1.220,316 million in exports (Duran 1). This shows how Brazil has supported the world’s economy by being a leader in the exportation of cattle. Additionally, cattle ranching in Brazil has created many jobs within the country and has drastically improved the country 's economic state. The cattle beef industry generates about 360 000 direct jobs as well as thousands of jobs among inputs suppliers, moving almost USD 2 billion in domestic inputs (Duran 1). Clearly, cattle ranching is a vital industry for the well being of the Brazilian economy however, the short-term economic benefits of deforestation are more than offset by long-term impact to both the environment and the population of Brazil.

2. As of 2013, Brazil had the seventh largest economy in the world, with a GDP of $2.2 trillion.1 They are also the largest economy in Latin America.2 While they experienced high GDP growth from 2008 through 2010, it has slowed in recent years due to high inflation, high operating costs, low productivity and overdependence on exports of raw commodities.3 Their primary exports include coffee, iron ore, soy beans, and transport equipment, predominantly to China (18 percent) and the United States (12 percent).4 In addition to their existing commodities, substantial offshore oil fields have been discovered that “have the potential to turn the country into one of the top