Economics
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14 April 2013 at 15 : 49 PM
Greater UK ‘Soft Power’ Thanks to Iron Maiden?
I was recently invited to attend a Wilton Park round-table discussion titled "Applying soft power: the Brazilian and British perspectives" in São Paulo. Wilton Park is a think tank funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to explore policy issues that affect the UK in various ways. My own contribution focused on how social media and popular culture ...
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20 June 2012 at 13 : 19 PM
Economic nationalism: the way to go for Brazil?
The Brazilian government's measures such as the recent temporary tax breaks for car manufacturers and home appliances to maintain economic growth may signal the start of a new form of economic policy, according to specialists. Brazil’s upbeat economic performance slowed in the first quarter of this year, with GDP falling 0.35% in March, after activity ...
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20 June 2012 at 09 : 20 AM
Imagine if every resident of Mumbai had a car?
IT Decisions is in Rome this week at the Orange Business Live conference - an event packed full of CIOs and technology decision-makers from across the world. Professor Stéphane Garelli of IMD Business School and the University of Lausanne delivered one of the opening keynotes, describing the future of the world economy. One of the key points he made ...
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24 February 2012 at 06 : 16 AM
Paid overtime will have no effect on outsourcing
They say that the main challenge for working people today is trying to achieve a work/life balance. It can be hard when the boss expects you to work superhuman hours in the office and then still answer emails or calls on the phone once you escape to the sanctuary of home - or a local bar. This is becoming normal the world over, but in Brazil the ...
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23 February 2012 at 17 : 01 PM
Latest LatAm research from Tholons
The research and advisory firm Tholons has just released their latest paper focused on the hi-tech service sector in Latin America, specifically IT and Business Process Outsourcing. Naturally Brazil takes centre stage in the Tholons findings. You can read the entire Tholons Latin America report here, but our quick summary of the main comments focused on ...
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3 February 2012 at 17 : 15 PM
Brazilian banks: an easy target for Anonymous?
This week, almost every major bank in Brazil has been the victim of a sustained attack by organized hackers. Who is responsible? British financial journalist, Shaun Cumming has some ideas... As news breaks that Anonymous successfully intercepted an IT security conference call between top Scotland Yard (UK) and FBI (US) officials, rumors of a ...
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2 February 2012 at 07 : 19 AM
Can Brazil drive innovation?
Last month, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) along with the main British ICT trade association, Intellect hosted an event at the Brazilian Embassy in London, which focused on the IT and communications sector in Brazil – in particular the opportunities for Brazilian and British firms to work together. The CEO of IT Decisions, Mark Hillary, spoke at ...
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20 January 2012 at 17 : 22 PM
UK Needs the Samba Beat of Brazil for Success
Brazil's economy has now officially overtaken the UK. So says economic research group, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) in a recent report. In fact, the Economist Intelligence Unit has predicted that by the end of this decade the new international economic order will be China, the US, India, Japan, and then Brazil. Not a single ...
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30 December 2011 at 14 : 03 PM
BBC ranks Dilma most important woman of 2011
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced their list of the women who contributed the most to 2011 and Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff features as their most important woman for September 2011. The BBC said: ...
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22 December 2011 at 15 : 12 PM
Brazilian IT entrepreneurs are mostly rich
Last week, Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico ran a large feature with the headline: "IT entrepreneurs are more educated than average." However, at IT Decisions, we believe the truth behind the numbers is quite different: people starting technology businesses in Brazil are simply richer. ...
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