Brazil

* Sugar and ethanol, 20 Apr 2007
Brazilian ethanol cannot be understood in isolation from the sugar industry
Energy
* Environmental policy tilt, 25 Apr 2007
Brazil's environmental licensing regime is leading to an infrastructure crunch
Politics/governance
* Brazil's growing consumer class, 16 Apr 2007
Brazilians of all class are enjoying a increase in consumption
Consumer
* Brazil's growing consumer class, 16 Apr 2007
Brazilians of all class are enjoying a increase in consumption
Consumer
* Brazil's real estate industry, 12 Apr 2007
Will demand for new properties keep up with the boom in construction?
Infrastructure
* Brazil's real estate industry, 12 Apr 2007
Will demand for new properties keep up with the boom in construction?
Consumer
* Survival of the regulatory agencies, 18 May 2007
Government inertia helps protect reform
Politics/governance
* Power rationing for Brazil?, 27 Mar 2007
Will poor planning and lack of investment hit growth?
Infrastructure
* Petrobras: Key to the biofuels industry?, 30 Mar 2007
Big waves from Petrobras
Energy
* Brazil's Rocky Roadmap, 20 Mar 2007
Roads, the Achilles heel of exports
Infrastructure
* Brazil's anti-business trade policy, 9 Mar 2007
A typical story of modern Brazil
Agriculture/food/biofuels
* Ethanol diplomacy: creating a world market, 6 Mar 2007
Brazil and the US are discovering a major shared interest
Energy
* Petrobras As Policy Maker, 28 Feb 2007
Petrobras is more than a state-owned oil company, it plays a fundamental role in making and implementing public policy
Energy
* Surging real here to stay, 19 Feb 2007
Financial markets are prevailing over the politicians
Macro policy
Rising to the ethanol opportunity Rising to the ethanol opportunity, 22 Feb 2007
As global demand for 'clean' fuel increases, Brazil steps up to become the Saudi Arabia of ethanol
Energy
* Lula's growth package, 15 Feb 2007
Asks the right question, but comes up with the wrong answer
Macro policy
A stock picker's economy A stock picker's economy, 12 Feb 2007
Though the government holds back growth potential, Brazil's economy bowls along thanks to its companies
Macro policy