Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... economic , but all were interrelated . He needed to combat the rising tide of inflation , provide lead- ership for the industrial future of the country , and satisfy increasingly strident political and economic factions in the process ...
Jon S. Vincent. munism but also making the economy work . Although the economy was growing , it was fueled not by internal ... economic problems - by 1981 the Gross Domestic Product declined for the first time since 1942 - and the chronic ...
... economic plan called the plano cruzado ( " cruzado plan , " the cruzado being the name of the new currency it created ) . This plan , like many similar ones in the past few decades , was an attempt to revivify the economy by freezing ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
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