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Portal Domínio Público (lit. ' Public Domain Portal ') is a digital library launched by the government of Brazil in November 2004. [1] It was founded as part of the Secretariat for Distance Education (Secretaria de Educação à Distância) of the Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação) with the goal of preserving and sharing cultural artworks that are in the public domain.
Satire depicting Ruy Barbosa, then Minister of Finance, trying to balance Brazil's finances, A Vida Fluminense [], No. 29, 24 May 1890 The Encilhamento was an economic bubble that boomed in the late 1880s and early 1890s in Brazil, bursting during the early years of the First Brazilian Republic (1889–1894) and leading to an institutional and a financial crisis.
The economic history of Brazil covers various economic events and traces the changes in the Brazilian economy over the course of the history of Brazil. Portugal , which first colonized the area in the 16th century, enforced a colonial pact with Brazil, an imperial mercantile policy, which drove development for the subsequent three centuries. [ 1 ]
The economy of the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) was centered on the export of raw materials when the country became independent in 1822.The domestic market was small, due to lack of credit and the almost complete self-sustainability of the cities, villages and farms that dedicated themselves to food production and cattle herding.
Its GDP surpassed that of the United Kingdom in 2012, temporarily making Brazil the world's sixth-largest economy. However, Brazil's economic growth decelerated in 2013 [34] and the country entered a recession in 2014. The economy started to recover in 2017, with a 1% growth in the first quarter, followed by a 0.3% growth in second quarter ...
Biblioteca Nacional, situated in Rio de Janeiro, the depository of the bibliographic and document-based heritage of Brazil.. The history of the book in Brazil focuses on the development of the access to publishing resources and acquisition of the book in the country, covering a period extending from the beginning of the editorial activity during colonization to today's publishing market ...
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is the first novel published by Japanese American author Karen Tei Yamashita.Primarily set in Brazil, the novel is often considered a work of magical realism but transgresses many literary genres as it incorporates satire and humor to address themes of globalization, transnationalism, migration, economic imperialism, environmental exploitation, socio-economic ...
Colonial Brazil. One of the first extant documents that might be considered Brazilian literature is the Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha (Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter). It is written by Pero Vaz de Caminha to Manuel I of Portugal, which contains a description of what Brazil looked like in 1500.