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Global warming also has an impact on ocean currents that influence the Brazilian climate, and the winds that carry the humidity that reaches Brazil are having their patterns modified, with the effect of reducing the level of atmospheric humidity and disturbing the formation of clouds, reducing precipitation.
Brazil was the 25th largest exporter in the world in 2020, with 1.1% of the global total. [152] In 2021, Brazil exported US$280.4 billion and imported US$219.4 billion, with a surplus of US$61 billion. [153] The country's top ten export products were: [154] Iron ore: US$42.2 billion; Soy: US$37.3 billion; Crude petroleum oils: US$27.4 billion
The "Map of Conflicts Related to Environmental Injustice and Health in Brazil" is an online map of conflicts relating to environmental injustice and health in Brazil. The map is maintained by the National School of Public Health of Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation , and Núcleo Ecologías, Epistemiologias e Promoção Emancipatória da Saude ...
In the 1940s Brazil began a program of national development in the Amazon Basin. President Getúlio Vargas declared emphatically that: The Amazon, in the impact of our will and labor, will cease to be a simple chapter in the world, and made equivalent to other great rivers, shall become a chapter in the history of human civilization.
The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 began in the United States and, although its effects were delayed in Brazil, there was a national economic slowdown. [16] [17] External Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: 2014 Brazilian economic crisis
The 2020 study finds that economic globalization has decreased security of global supply chains with most countries exhibiting greater exposure to resource risks via international trade – mainly from remote production sources – and that diversifying trading partners is unlikely to help nations and sectors to reduce these or to improve their ...
Along with the problem of poverty, Brazil is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) of Brazil. Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear.
From mid-2014 onward, Brazil experienced a severe economic crisis. [1] [2] The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by 3.5% in 2015 and 3.3% in 2016, after which a small economic recovery began. That recovery continued until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact the economy again.