Brazil ranks 𓄧among the world&rsquo🎃;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 activi☂ty has been declining since 2014, due to the ailing economy, high inflation, restricted credit supply, low government ...

With est𝐆imated net revenues of USD 119.6bn in 2017, Brazil’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 largest global economies and being responsible for more than half of South America&rsquo♏;s GDP in 2016, according to October 2017 estimates by๊ the IMF, Brazil has the most inadequate infrastructure of the ...

Brazil is among the global leaders in renewable 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/yﷺ at the end of 2016, indicating weaker performance of the industry than that of the overall economy, with the GDP contracting b🉐y 3.5% ...

The wood and paper sector is one of Brazil’s most competitive industries on an international scale. The m♈ain advantages of the country are the abundance of available land, the favourable soil and climatic conditions and the high forest ...

The real estate sector - one of the key drivers of the Brazilian economy in the past decade - was not shielded from the deep recession in the country over the 2015-2ꦓ016 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 con༺traction. Since 2014, the automotive sector in the country has experienced𓆉 one of the deepest crises in its ...

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