In transparency it beats the Russians and Chinese. In demographics it beats Russia whose population is going down at tune of 700K a year.
Malaysians, Thais and the Philipinnes have religious and ethnic problems unknown there a single language and a single religion (that's what they say they profess) in a continent size country. (Compare that with India to see what I'm alluding too.
The only problem is social divide. The sixth worse distribution of income in the planet.
Now this social divide is being taken care off: combatting violence, poverty and low education:
Lula Announces $3.28 Billion Crime Fighting Plan for Brazil Bloomberg - Aug 20, 2007 ``We're investing in intelligence and betting all our chips on saving our young people and their future from violence,'' said Lula. ...
Lifting Families Out of Poverty in Brazil World Bank Group, DC - Aug 22, 2007 The Bolsa Família Program (BFP) was launched in October 2003 as President Lula’s flagship social program in support of his “Zero Hunger” initiative.
Brazil forecasts US$ 1.76 trillion budget for next four years ANBA, Brazil - Aug 31, 2007 The government included, in the PPA, the Education Development Plan (PDE), which aims at improving basic education, reducing illiteracy rates, ...
We are getting there step by step...
hey, those Arabs here -with their major plan to get oil to the east- are a nice target group for our exports. let them get their act together...
Brazil is going to leave a few great pretenders in the dust. |