Brazil

* Brazil tunes in to pay TV, 27 Mar 2008
Rising incomes and technological advances fuel expansion
Consumer
* Unclogging Brazil’s water and sanitation system, 27 Feb 2008
New legislation has the potential to open the floodgates for private investment
Infrastructure
* Here comes the sun: Brazil's solar potential, 20 Feb 2008
Threat of a national energy crunch is good for the solar thermal industry
Energy
* How much longer can Brazil rule the global chicken market roost?, 14 Feb 2008
Brazil is no longer immune to corn market imbalances caused by the US ethanol surge
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Power to Brazil's PCs, 29 Jan 2008
Low computer penetration rates in Brazil offer excellent growth opportunities
Consumer
* Brazil's steel industry on a roll, 24 Jan 2008
The sector is growing strongly thanks to domestic demand
Consumer
* Brave new crops, 20 Dec 2007
Regulatory delays will slow, but not stop, the march of biotech into Brazilian agriculture
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Blazing a pulp and paper trail, 17 Dec 2007
Chinese demand will support a doubling of Brazil's market pulp exports over the next decade
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Brazil’s pork industry brings home the bacon, 10 Dec 2007
Phytosanitary barriers threaten to constrain growth
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Brazil’s rail renaissance continues, 4 Dec 2007
Torrid growth in commodities demand unleashes large-scale investments in the railroads
Infrastructure
* Second-generation ethanol: a challenge for Brazil, 21 Nov 2007
Brazil must ratchet up cellulosic investments or face eroding ethanol export competitiveness
Energy
* Biofuels under attack: Will Brazilian ethanol still thrive?, 6 Mar 2008
Brazil must play its ethanol card right so as not to fall prey to the escalating global biofuels backlash
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Brazil flirts again with nuclear power, 15 Nov 2007
Plans for new nuclear plants will likely be suspended when the electricity crunch eases
Energy
* Jatropha: A miracle biofuel crop or just another weed?, 12 Nov 2007
Medium-term technical challenges are likely to slow commercialisation of Brazil's promising new feedstock
Energy
* Brazil's Natural Gas Challenge, 6 Nov 2007
High stakes riding on Petrobras’s ability to increase natural gas supplies
Energy
* Road concession auction: a move in the right direction, 4 Oct 2007
The 9 October auction should attract interest from local and international players
Infrastructure
* Brazilian soy production: cautious growth resumes, 23 Sep 2007
Producers are still licking their wounds from 2004-6
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Preparing for global ethanol, 16 Sep 2007
Petrobras and the private sector jockeying for position in export infrastructure development
Energy
* Brazilian insurance: demand-driven growth and regulatory change, 10 Sep 2007
The de-monopolisation of reinsurance will put a premium on stock-picking as more companies float
Consumer
* The rhetoric and reality of Brazilian soy expansion, 11 Jan 2008
Amazon basin soy expansion will intensify pressure on large trading companies
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Brazil's strong real and its impact on economic policy, 4 Sep 2007
Currency appreciation will not deter the Lula administration from pursuing its course
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Brazil's oil revolution, 16 Aug 2007
The end of the state monopoly on exploration and production has revolutionised the oil industry
Energy
* Agricultural machinery comes into its own, 23 Aug 2007
Government financing is key for the sustainable growth of the sector
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Credit powers Brazil's auto industry, 8 Aug 2007
Investments in capacity are on the horizon
Consumer
* Brazil's fertiliser demand takes off, 19 Jul 2007
Commodity prices boost market
Energy