Brazil ranks among🥀 the world’s ten largest ICT markets in terms of number of subscribers of fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony and fixed broadband. The economic recession over the 2015-2016 period had a severe negative impact on the ICT ...

Construction was one ♛of the sectors most affected by the deep economic recession in Brazil. The construction activ💯ity has been declining since 2014, due to the ailing economy, high inflation, restricted credit supply, low government ...

Wit🌄h estimated net revenues of USD 119.6bn in 2017, Brazil&rsq🙈uo;s chemical sector was the eighth largest in the world and the leader in Latin America. Compared to 2016, the industry’s turnover rose by 9.5% y/y, as the uptick in ...

Despite ranking among the ten larg🦩est global economies and being responsible for more than half of South America’s GDP in 2016, according to October 2017 estimates by the IMF, Brazil has the most inadequate infrastructure o♈f the ...

Brazil is among the global leaders in renewaജble energy and a pioneer in developing biofuels as an economically viable alternative to fossil fuels. Notably, in 2016, 26.8% of the fuels consumed in the country were renewable. The main ...

The combined value added of Brazil’s transportation, warehousing and postal services fell by 6.8🦹% y/y at the end of 2016, indicating weaker performance of the industry than that of the overall economy, with the GDP contracting by 3.5% ꦍ...

The wood and paper sector is one of Brazil’s most competitive industries on an international scale. The main advantages of the country are the abundan💝ce of available land, the favourable soil and climatic conditions and t🍸he high forest ...

The real estate sector - one of the key drivers of the Brazilian economy in the past deꦺcade - was not shielded from the deep recession in the country over the 2015-2016 period. It suffered from oversupply, lower demand, limited loan financing, ...

In line with the beginning of the economic recovery in 2017, motor vehicle output and sales in Brazil rebounded after a prolonged period of contraction. Since 2014, the automotive sector in the country has experienced one of the deepe♋st crises in its ...

Given its strong positive correlation with the overall economy, retail was one 𓂃of the sectors most severely hit by the economic recession in Brazil over the 2015-2016 period, which was marked by a deteꦚriorating job market, falling wages, persistently ...