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As a result of the problems associated with import substitution industrialization and the reforms introduced by the military regime after March 1964, the Brazilian economy lost much of its dynamism between 1962 and 1967. [12] The average rate of growth of GDP in the period declined to 4.0 percent and that of industry to 3.9 percent. [12]
The Plano Real (Real Plan) were a set of measures taken to stabilize the Brazilian economy, particularly against hyperinflation. The plan stopped index inflation, introduced the Real (Brazil's currency), created an exchange rate that was partially pegged to the U.S. dollar for stability, and limited government spending. [10]
' National Monetary Council ') decided the national currency could once again be called "cruzeiro". [6] The new currency would have parity with the "old" cruzeiro at a rate of 1000 cruzeiros = 1 cruzeiro novo. Banknotes in the values of 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10000 old cruzeiros received stamps with the values of 1, 5, 10, 50 Centavos ...
The first study into the impact of the Creative Industries on the Brazilian economy was published by FIRJAN. [112] The creative economy in Latin America was termed the "Orange Economy" [113] in a publication released by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This 2013 study valued Brazil's Orange Economy at US$66.87 billion providing ...
The gross domestic product of India was estimated at 24.4% of the world's economy in 1500, 22.4% in 1600, 16% in 1820, and 12.1% in 1870. India's share of global GDP declined to less than 2% of global GDP by the time of its independence in 1947, and only rose gradually after the liberalization of its economy beginning in the 1990s.
Then-President Johnson linked his efforts to the economy when, in a 1964 speech at the University of Michigan, he implored graduates to help make social change instead of just money.
Brazil’s real on Wednesday fell to its weakest level against the dollar since the currency was introduced in 1994, undercut by investors' frustration with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's ...
The American public in general knew little about Brazil, and the events in Panama in 1964 and in the Dominican Republic the following year had more resonance than the Brazilian coup. The government saw "a continental country, populous, with significant economic possibilities, but militarily unimportant". [ 57 ]