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Brazil’s President Rousseff ends her first year with a popularity of 73%
Brazil’s first woman president Dilma Rousseff popularity climbed in December to reach 72%, almost the same level, 73%, when she took office January first 2011, according to a public opinion poll from Ibope released earlier this week. Read full article
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Dec 22nd, 2011 - 05:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Popularity of 73%, not bad at all.
This is great news for Brazil and our syster Dilma, lets hope things keep getting better for them, I hear they are doing great in the renewable fuel industry.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 05:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Numbers aren't bad because employment figures are still good. If the economy's mood worsens - which is not unlikely - so will the government's approval ratings.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 05:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 2 she's not our sister, she's the president of Brazil, and Brazil is making business, like the other countries, but if things get bad-which is lilely-, Brazil will not commit self-immolation for us, so don't be childish heehee
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 04 facts are however under Dilma Lula and the Kirchners.Argentina and Brasil have entered a programme of intehration and frienship never seen before.We need each other
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0CFK and Argentina in the same line: do me a favour.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK wishes she had Brasil to be President of. What a joke as usual Ogaga, (which version are you today?)
Popularity of 73%. Good.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She is keeping her head down and grinding away at the hard stuff, whilst still making noises like a SA leftist. For a person not trained in the political arts she is doing well.
In a year or so she will be able to quietly drop the 'Landless Peasant' land appropriation legislations, and bring some gentle and much needed controls to the open-ended nature of the Bolsa Familia.
And I would like to see her take up the challenge of FHC, a previous president, in parallel with the steady movement to strip out the corrupt politicians and government officials.
Success in her future term of office is conditional, I think, on her support for the development of SMEs within the Brasilian economy.
Before that, there will come a 'tipping point' where she and the country realise that the government and country have become governable.
The people want ethical governance (hence the 73%), but up 'til now have seen no route to achieving it when faced with the self-serving practices of the 'permanent establishment'.
Forget, what do you think of this interview of the brit who created BRIC.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.npr.org/2011/12/21/144054975/brazil-outshines-other-bric-economies
Back to the topic.
Brazil and Dilma will get it tough, so will the other nations in South America, since the big ponzi schemes in Europe and the US will collapse while spoiled idiots refuse to face the truth but prefer have their head stuck in the sand, post their boring lives on youtube or play war games on their xbox or playstation and talk tough, we all will see ugly “statistic numbers”. At the end, they, south american nations will be the winners with other nations in asia and africa. There is no question that a new era has just began. Now i'm in the wrong area, but I'm prepared..i think..lol.
Merry Christmas everybody (include the ugly brits with bad teeth..ugh)
Yes, merry Christmas to all who post on the site.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And in the same way as Fido teases with his 'teeth' comments, I apologise to all I have offended in the past year.
Let 2012 be a year when we all agree on every topic - on second thoughts, that would be REALLY boring.
New Year's Resolution - to be provocative, even confrontational, without being rude, crude or offensive.
** 8 Fido
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0do you remember our discussion on Brasil growth performance at
last August....where i had said that the Brasil Economy can not grow
at high rate levels... right ..!....you see growth rate numbers.....
Dilma has 73 % popularity
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BUT
she has lower rating than Cristina.F.K
at least at Mercopress forums..................!!
@geo today's growth rates have been affected by the Eurozone crisis, a very tight monetary policy, fiscal austerity, and cuts in investment by the government and SOEs.
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0** 12 Forget
Dec 22nd, 2011 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no related to EU foreign trade directly..
BECOUSE
EU has some trade deficit with Brasil on primary products
EU has some trade surplus Brasil on manufactured products
also volumes are not big..
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it's monetary / fiscal / investment policies are lax enough
should not be as tight...
@Fido
Dec 24th, 2011 - 05:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0O'Neal was just describing past feats of the Brazilian economy; it may be a fair assessment, but it doesn't say much on our economy's ability to show good growth rates now that investor sentiment has been dampened by the international economic volatility. The government itself did almost everything within its reach to stall economic growth - in part because of biased and exaggerated reports on the financial press that Brazil was overheating (remember that tale?): reports that had little resemblance to reality. I was surprised at news that the government was pressuring SOEs and public banks to withhold investment in order to not provoke inflation; I knew that eventually such tough measures would have a depressing effect on the economy because the overheating threat was an exaggeration, as the economy had been cooling down since the latter half of the past year; and that is just what happened. The inflation threat was exaggerated, the government reacted strongly to an overstated threat, and this expectedly has resulted in today's flat growth numbers. For the last few months the government has tried to re-stimulate the economy, but mostly with measures that are little more than symbolic. As I said, it is my opinion that the government took exaggerated measures that affected investor feeling -- and it will be hard to lighten up investor mood again, specially if the global economy keeps worsening and the government fails to soon introduce more meaningful measures to enable productive investment.
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