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Presidenta Rousseff: “Brazilian young girls can now aspire to become president”
President Dilma Rousseff praised Brazilian women on a popular television program for having helped her “open the path for all young girls who dream of becoming president” and reiterated her administration’s commitment to combat poverty which has the face of ‘women and children’. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules”....... Finally she said that women and children are the main targets of her project to end with poverty and misery in Brazil. “Poverty in Brazil has a face and an origin. It’s most feminine, linked to women and children. We’re going to change that”.
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't see around me in the favelas and the sertaos this Gender-Split in poverty. Men in the household are just as poor as the women.
If the Presidenta is to swing more money to the women they will have to have bank accounts in their name - difficult in the sertaos though not impossible in favelas.
Who pays? The tax-payers.
This means that more (men) will have to be brought out of the black-economy and into the taxation-economy.
This will inevitably make vast numbers of men poorer/unemployed because of the huge (tax-)overheads that the Government write-into employment law.
In Brasil, an out-of-work 'bread-winner' man means a family with reduced income, and that means male, female and child poverty.
Merely saying that the Presidenta wants less female and child poverty is insufficient - the social and administrative structure of the nation needs MUCH wider modification to enable this to happen.
There is so much inefficiency, so much corruption.
Simply bleeding the middle class and industrial cash-cows will not provide long-lasting solutions.
Ok !
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch.
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dear Forgetit,
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0have you any ideas of your own?
Put some good thoughts together and we can have a discussion.
Geoff.
(1) and (4)
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whine, whine, whine, whine,whine, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch.
@Think
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahahaha
@Geoff
I'm just fooling around, don't take it personally. :)
GeoffWard...u are from Brasilia !? ...well
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's discuss on next articles.
Yul - Germany
There is so much inefficiency, so much corruption.
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Similar like the US, stop bitching and concentrate on your own country that is falling apart. As I see, Brazilians are trying hard on a different way to solve their problems what will take years to solve, but of course geoffward is a brain washed foreigners who can only give credit when it's someone from the so called right wing party.
Simply bleeding the middle class and industrial cash-cows will not provide long-lasting solutions.
Please show us all here some date how the middle class in Brazil is bleeding. I think you confuse Brazil with the US.
Cheers, Forgetit.
Mar 02nd, 2011 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think: try champagne, better than whine.
Yul: Salvador, not Brasilia.
Fido: I am being bled, being middle class in Brasil. Total tax-take is much higher here than in the UK; don't know about the USA, only go there on holiday. PS. 1: What is a right wing Brasilian, never met one outside the Senate. PS.2: Brasilians are trying a different way to solve their problems ........ Did you lobby for the Ficha Limpa?
Fido ! you make ruthless comment here ...
Mar 03rd, 2011 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0for all i know ,the Brasilian Economy still has agro base structure
it must be converted to different kinds of techno base structure !
for example ; it makes planes succesfully but their parts imported...
@arquero
Mar 03rd, 2011 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only 6% of Brazilian GDP is derivied from agrobusiness.
As for having to import some parts of the planes it designs, that is true not only of Embraer but also of every major aircraft maker in the world - Boeing, Bombardier, Sukhoi, Dassault, Saab, etc. For instance, the Boeing 787 Dreamline is 90% manufactured by subcontractors (which are mainly Japanese, but also French and Korean). This business model - to outsource parts of the manufacturing to partner companies - makes it both cheaper and faster for the plane maker to put its product in the market.
Forgetit87 ... you are right ,but in micro scale !
Mar 03rd, 2011 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasil's manufactured products are :
EXPORT : Cars ,Planes , Parts and components for vehicles and tractors ,
Refined sugar , fuel oil .. and some others..
IMPORTS : Cars , Parts and components for vehicles and tractors ,
Integrated circuits and microchips , heterocyclic compounds ,
Plane engines and turbines and parts ...some others..
Imports values have two times of Exports on manufactured products !
this shows us ,Brasil has no cumulative value added tech industries yet !
@arquero
Mar 03rd, 2011 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the imbalance between exports and imports value lies mainly in Brazil's macroeconomic vulnerability, not in the extension of industry modernization. Brazil's overvalued currency and lack of export promotion policies make it difficult to export manufactures, but easy to import them.
“Brasil has no cumulative value added tech industries yet”
Mar 03rd, 2011 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Um, that's untrue. Brazil has national air transport and terrestrial vehicles makers, weapons manufacturers, rocket builders, PC makers and IT companies. What it lacks is a macroeconomic environment that stimulates high value added exports and halts the expansion of imports during periods of high consumption.
Forgetit....
Mar 03rd, 2011 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but Brasil has no even any own brand Car Company !!
Korea has two bright brands !!....Indian ,Chinese brands are coming....
you don't have own Car Firms but you make Plane...antilogical !
No, we don't have a big car-maker (though there's one manufacturer of weird small cars names Obvio!). But we did have in a recent past. In the mid-90s, many national high- and mid-tech companies - car-makers, electronic systems for transport vehicles, and PC makers - disappeared due to some mistaken economic decisions. Brazil opened its market in a very sudden way and pegged its currency to the dollar in a very unfavourable exchange rate. Cheap imports then flooded the market, and many national industries were extinguished in the process. Among the PC makers, for example, only two of the companies already in existence - Itautec and Positivo - survived the market shock. With car makers things were worse: not one company has lived on to these days, though there's still one big company in the collective vehicles business (Marcopolo). Embraer only exists today because - in contrast to companies in those other sectors - it has always counted on government support.
Mar 04th, 2011 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for India and China, you should know that: Indian car-makers are still dependent on supply by foreign companies (the Nano car is made up of German parts); and China's car industry was built entirely on the basis of technology transfer. Its car-makers have for more than a generation replicated foreign designs by forging joint ventures with international brands - and they have still failed to be competitive thus far. National brands account for only 30% of car sales in China and that country has utterly failed to produce cars of quality to be exported. See this unbelievable performance of China's BS6 on a secutiry test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amFJwdg7O1E :)
Forgetit ..................... good comments
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