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Mission Control, Built for Cities -
09/03/2012
- The New York Times
Not far from Copacabana Beach here is a control room that looks straight out of NASA. Eduardo Paes, left, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, at the scene of a building collapse in January. Rio's new ...
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Brazil's economy overtakes UK to become world's sixth largest -
09/03/2012
- The Guardian
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Brazil has claimed the UK's spot as the world's sixth largest economy after official figures showed its economy rose 2.7% last year against the UK's 0.8%. France remains in fifth place behind Germany, Japan, China and the US.
The per capita income of Brazilians remains less than a third of that enjoyed in the UK at $11,000 (£7,000) per head, but the situation is improving all the time while western economies largely stagnate.
The economic thinktank, the CEBR, predicted last year that Brazil would...
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