Brazil in 2013 (Sotero)

Brazil in 2013: Can Rousseff rise to the occassion? by Paulo Sotero published by CNN (12/2012). “There is ample consensus among economists on what she needs to do to prove skeptics wrong a second time. Brazil’s investment ratio to GDP, currently around 19 percent, has to move to the 23 percent to 25 percent range achieved by neighboring countries like Chile, Peru and Colombia, and by Mexico, which are growing at 4.5 percent to 5 percent and proving that an adverse global scenario is no longer a good excuse for poor economic performance.”