Brazil’s government just launched its R$ 200 note while the Central Bank hints about a possibility of a digital currency.
Tag: Brazil
How Covid-19 helped decrease the unbanked population in Brazil
The Brazilian government announced a financial support scheme aimed at self-employed and informal workers that had their incomes affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. Brazil has a large population of…
Opinion: will local brands dominate emerging markets?
The global market of consumer packaged goods is US$ 1.2 trillion and global brands are facing strong competition from local brands in emerging markets. And what’s the global companies’ strategy…
Latin America: 3 platforms changing the crowdfunding game
Here are 3 of Latin America’s biggest platforms running in the upfront of the crowdfunding game.
How China and Brazil are investing in Africa
After the economic slow-down, inflation and recession – and perhaps, some most pessimistic might say, the eminent down-fall of BRICS, all eyes turn to Africa as the new best thing…
How women became the top entrepreneurs in Brazil’s slums
In one of my previous posts about the Brazil slums – Favela Rising – I talked about how resourceful someone has to be in the favelas (slums). That is exactly…
Blockchain-based land registries may help lift the poor out of poverty
Many developing countries don’t have a working system of tracking property rights, and what they do have can be fragile and incomplete. In Haiti, for instance, a large earthquake in…
Brazilian e-commerce is booming! Is your online shop ready for “samba”?
If you work with international e-commerce, you must have heard that Brazil is the next online powerhouse. The current growth in the number of smartphones has opened up a world…
Why Brazil’s tourism still is under-performing
Brazil is a huge country, one of the biggest of the world. Its seaside measures over 7,400 km and two worldwide famous cities are located there: Rio de Janeiro and…
