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Brazil pharma growth faces data protection challenges

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BRAZIL

While Brazil’s recent enactment of its Data Protection Law represents a milestone for the domestic data protection culture, it also generated growing concern about data breaches…

Latin American pandemic impacts will be long-term

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LATIN AMERICA

The near-term measures needed to address the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region include support for recovery of the labour market and, in particular, women’s…

BRICS, MINT manufacturing to face global divergences

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INTERNATIONAL

Manufacturing outlook in BRICS and MINT countries.

Brazil's Rousseff faces bleak second-term panorama

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BRAZIL

Only a month into her second term, President Dilma Rousseff faces an increasingly complicated panorama. In addition to fallout from corruption investigations into state-controlled…

Latin America risks another lost decade

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LATIN AMERICA

The health crisis, national lockdowns and a global recession have combined to create a difficult environment in Latin America, while governments’ responses to the pandemic have…

Interest rates will continue to rise in Brazil

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BRAZIL

The increase, the largest since 2002, comes despite low growth expectations and reflects concerns over rising inflation, with the Central Bank warning of a similar rate rise in…

Gang wars risk wider violence in Brazil

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BRAZIL

Gang wars and violence risk.

Brazil policies focus on short-term poverty responses

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BRAZIL

The pandemic has worsened the living conditions of vulnerable people. Governmental emergency aid has temporarily lifted people out of poverty, but declining income gains, high…

Brazil oil auctions fall short of expectations

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BRAZIL

Pre-salt oil auctions.

Brazil's foreign exchange law may have mixed effects

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BRAZIL

There are several arguments in favour of the new law, among them the simplification of foreign exchange rules and the facilitation of international transactions. However, the law…