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IB 101F FALL 10 TEAM MEMBERS Cassandra DeSisto Linda Harris Rob Symanski Galena Vankaeva 2 • IS GLOBALIZATION AN IMPORTANT MECHANISM FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY IN BRAZIL? • THE FIVE DOMAINS RELATED TO GLOBALIZATION GOVERN CHANGES RELATED TO POVERTY WITHIN A NATION Cassandra DeSisto 3 Basic Assumption - Opening Brazil’s borders to free trade would create an increase in the standard of living, thus lowering poverty levels. Initial Findings - Free trade has created an increase in the standard of living in Brazil, thus lowering poverty levels. Rob Symanski 4 The Southern Common Market: •Facilitated trade and links the businesses market located in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay allows businesses to impact approximately 190 million in the region Lifting tariffs and trade barriers has allowed Brazil’s business market to expand exponentially Rob Symanski 5 • Foreign Direct Investments peaked at 45.058 Billion dollars in 2008 • Industries that have contributed to the economy and provided employment opportunities to the Brazilian population• Production of goods linked with business market has directly yielded an increase in GDP • Increasing at a rate of 1.2% annually • 1.575 trillion dollars in 2008 Rob Symanski 6 Sectors of the Economy •agriculture, industry, mining, manufacturing and service Trading partners allowed Brazil’s economy to expand •The USA, China, Japan and Mexico http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/GDP-Growth.aspx?Symbol=BRL Cassandra DeSisto 7 The “best president ever ”, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s presidency 2002-2010 as a key to Brazil’s success: Income rose by 32% Increase in infrastructural projects (the Trans-Northeastern railway, Belo Monte dam, Sao Francisco canal) Electricity For All Programme (10mil); La Bolsa Familia Opened 214 technical universities, 14 public institutions 20 mil Brazilians emerged from poverty Red light to global companies Galina Vankaeva 88 October, 30 2010 Dilma Rousseff accepts the torch of power Continuity is on agenda Goal: to “turn temporary luck into a long-term blessing” Galina Vankaeva 9 Culture and Behavior of People ethnicity, classes, language, religion, crime, literacy Social Programs Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) Bolsa Familia Program Linda Harris 10 Natural Resources Nickel, tin, gold, iron, uranium, timber, oil Pollution •Increased power consumption • Increased use of fossil fuels • Devastation and deforestation of Amazon Climate Change Statute Green Free Trade Zone Linda Harris 11 Brazil has: become a participant in the free–trading globalized world capitalized on its vast natural resources elected great leadership … and thus has been successful in raising the standard of living of its citizens Cassandra DeSisto 12 Winners: •The Brazilian nation as whole - 20 million poor emerged from the bottom • The purchasing power of a Brazilian strengthened • Students • Lamborghini-rich • Petrobras-Shell-Green innovation- Cleaner world • World Cup 2014 and the Olympics in 2016 • Nation’s pride boosted so high morale Losers: • Amazon Rainforest • Inhabitants of favelas • Poor as a target of global corporations • Indigenous population Galina Vankaeva 13 Suffolk University’s Online Databases Websites •Fox Business, Economy Watch, CIA Government, Geert Hofstede, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, United Nations, Embassy of Brazil in London, and Yale Global Rob Symanski