Brazil+-+Kyle+Chamberlin


 * Development**

70; Score: 0.800 $9,700 Mining, Farming, Fishing, Soybeans Coffee, Sugarcane Production Automobile production, aircraft Production, textiles, construction, Food production Teaching, Accounting, Communication, Real Estate Engineering Iron, Tin, Steel, Lumber Footwear, toys, electronics, clothing, Food/beverage, appliances, real Estate, automobiles, computer Software, oil products Brazilian Constitution states: Education is a right for all, a duty To the State and of the family, and is To be promoted with the Collaboration of society, with the Objective of fully developing the Person, preparing the individual for The exercise of citizenship and Qualifying him/her for work.” -6.2 years of formal education -3 levels: (fundamental – free, mandatory for those 6-14, 8 grades basic courses)(secondary – free, basic courses, some agriculture training)(higher – free at public universities) 88.6% Male: 68.3 years Female: 76.38 27.62 deaths/1,000 live births 1.011% 16.3 births/1,000 population 60 of 167 countries - Overall, women in Brazil have attained a high rate of literacy and comprise more than half of the tertiary school enrollments. Women’s participation in workforce dramatically increased during the past 15 years (56% of women take part in the labor market). - Brazilian women’s comparatively high internet use rate (43% of all users), educational attainment levels and women as potential leaders in the information technology (IT) workforce in Brazil - Within the IT sector, women reportedly make up only 20% of the workers in Brazil’s software industry and fewer women are employed in hardware jobs such as networking. - The Salary gap between men and women has gotten smaller
 * HDI Rank**:
 * GDP**
 * Primary Sector Jobs**
 * Secondary Sector Jobs**
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 * Raw Materials**
 * Consumer Goods**
 * Education**
 * Literacy**
 * Life Expectancy**
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 * GDI**


 * Industry**

Textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, automobiles, and other machinery equipment
 * Types of industry**


 * Site factors**
 * Land** - Brazil has a vast expanse of mountains, lowlands, and wetlands conducive to any sort of industry. Industry is mainly located in dry highlands. The Country is wide, however, hindering transportation from more obscured locations.


 * Labor** - Brazil features a large amount of illegal immigrants willing to work for less from poor surrounding countries like Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. Many refugees from Colombia flee to Brazil, and are, for the most part, willing to work in poor conditions for little money. Also, city dwellers along the coast are willing to work in factories located in urban areas. However, cheaper labor in surrounding companies may take away from Brazil's labor force and industrial diversity in the future.


 * Capital** - Skilled workers in urban areas can help to produce more intricate products, while unskilled farmers and illegal immigrants can produce more simple products in factories far from urban areas, where land is plentiful and cheap. Depending on the product, factories can successfully exist in Brazil because of the diversity in land types.

- Amazon River provides transportation within northern Part of the nation -Atlantic Ocean provides transportation to other Europe and North America - Rio Grande provides transportation within the southern region of the nation -Large port cities (Sao Paulo, Florianopolis, Salvador) provide transportation to Europe and abroad thanks to the ocean -Airports in large cities and abroad allow for transport of resources
 * Situation Factors**


 * Resources

Types of energy** consumes 368.5 bil kWh - consumes 2.1 mil bbl/day -- New Reserves have been found - consume 17.85 bil cu m 122 total turbines Brazil’s total energy
 * Electricity**- produces 396.4 bil kWh
 * Oil** - produces 1.59 mil bbl/day
 * Natural Gas**- produce 9.37 bil cu m
 * Wind**- 225 MW of energy produced
 * Hydroelectric**- Produces 31% of

-Deforestation – Approximately 150,000 square km between May 2000 and August 2006 - CO2 emissions weaken atmosphere - Mercury from equipment runs into groundwater and rivers/lakes, killing fish - 20% of earth’s Oxygen produced in Rainforests, with forests gone, less Oxygen is being created - Logging tears apart soil otherwise suitable for farming or housing - 27,000 species of plant, and animal driven to extinction each year - Deforestation causes 7-31% of all global CO2 emission Created - Deforestation down 9000 square Km in 2005 - WWF and other environmentalist Groups trying to halt deforestation by 2015 - Motorists in major cities required to leave vehicles at home one day a week - Carbon monoxide emissions drops by 550 tons - Ban on burning sugarcane fields - Oil - possible depletion of resources - produces waste from drilling - about six billion barrels imported each day, which hurts Brazil’s economy - Overall, energy creates few problems for Brazil - Largely hydroelectric, which creates few problems - Ethanol is also relatively clean - Mainly, deforestation is the main pollution issue for Brazil
 * Pollution**
 * Fixing Pollution** - 20 million acres of nature reserves
 * Energy Problems**


 * Bibliography**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Brazil

http://www.mapsofworld.com/south-america/economy/brazil.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brazilian_states_by_Human_Development_Index

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/78101/Brazil

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/brazil/brazil.html

__**Country Comparison**__

France

Similarities: - Both countries have easy access to a major body of water (Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean) to supply intercontinental transportaion - Both countries have taken measures to regulate air pollution from vehicles in cities (No vehicle use at all one day a week in Brazil and only even/odd numbered license plated vehicles allowed to drive some days in France). - Both countries have a large agricultural market. France depends mainly on Mediterranean crops such as wine and olives, which flourish in their climate. Brazil is the world's leading producer of sugarcane and is also a large producer of soy beans and coffee.

Differences: - France has a literacy rate of 99%, while Brazil has a literacy rate of only 88.9% - France is the second largest producer of nuclear energy in the world and depends on it for 39% of its energy. Brazil is the among the world's largest producers of hydroelectric energy and depends on it for 31% of its energy. - France's GDP per capita is $30,368 while Brazil's is only $9,700.

China

Similarities: - Both countries have a large oil reserve, with oil under the ocean off the coast of both countries - Both countries have large shorelines with ports to facilitate transportation intercontinentally - Both countries have poor GDP's per capita, with China's at $6,757 and Brazil's at $9,700

Differences: - Women in China are treated far less fairly than women in Brazil (domestic violence is common, majority of illiterate people are female). - China depends largely on oil and coal, while Brazil is attempting to move more towards ethanol and hydroelectricity for power. - China ranks 81 on the HDI chart, while Brazil ranks 70, with a difference of .033 in their scores

Germany

Similarities: - Both countries feature a large labor force, capable of a large industrial market in Germany and a large agricultural market in Brazil - Both countries have means of transportation, Germany being able to transport easily within Europe because of its central location and within itself using the Rhine River. Brazil can transport goods to foreign countries easily using the Atlantic Ocean or by simply shipping items by plane or truck around South America. - Both countries depend partially on hydroelectric and wind energy

Differences: - Germany has a GDI rank of 20, while Brazil has a rank of 60 - Germany has a literacy rate of 99%, while Brazil has a literacy rate of only 88.6% - Germany has a GDP per capita of $29,461 while Brazil has a low $9,700.


 * Country Analysis**

Brazil is among the most progressive countries in the world today. Brazil is pioneering new research on the capabilities of ethanol fuel with the help of the United States, and is the worlds largest exporter of the product and its derivative, sugar cane. Brazil's ethanol production and research has made it capable of saving a great deal of expensive oil as world-wide demand for oil grows exponentially each day. Additionally, Brazil is a large producer of the renewable energy source, hydroelectricity. Brazil depends on hydroelectricity for as much as 31% of their total energy and contains the world's largest hydroelectric powerplant, Ita. Besides it's progressive energy system, Brazil also features a large work force capable of producing a large, successful economy. Brazil recieves many illegal immigrants from foreign countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia, most of whom are willing to work in poor factory conditions for little pay. Also, urban dwellers in the nation's many port cities help to keep Brazil's textile factories and ports running smoothly. However, despite the positives of the country, Brazil is far from perfect. Brazil is becoming extremely polluted due to deforestation. Deforestation has destroyed usable land by carelessly demolishing it and has also spewed a monstrous amount of CO2 into the atmostphere (7-31% of all the world's CO2 emissions). In addition to being polluted, Brazil features a large amount of extremely poor peasants. Although a few Brazilians have become wealthy due to ethanol and other expanding markets, many Brazilians live in squalid conditions, making an average of $9,700 a year. Brazilian literacy rate is only 88.6% and the infant mortality rate is a high 27.62 per 1,000 live births, showing that Brazil still has room for improvement. Despite it's unfavorable aspects, Brazil is a progressive country working on changing to work away from the oil era.

In fifty years, Brazil will be a far more successful country than it is today. As the world's proven oil reserves begin to run dry in a predicted forty years, the world will soon be scrambling for a new source of energy. Brazil is currently pioneering research on ethanol, an oil alternative derived from sugarcane. In Brazil, the majority of new vehicles are already capable of running on ethanol, with some running exclusively on ethanol and others capable of running on either oil or ethanol. As world demand for an oil alternative grows, Brazil will be able to supply the world with a well developed approach to ethanol, a viable alternative for the future. In addition to the tremendous potential in the ethanol market, Brazil has the large amount of workers necessary to produce a large amount of the chemical, as well as continuing to run the rest of the country's industry. In the future, other conditions in Brazil will improve, also. The spike in Brazil's economy caused by the worldwide sale of ethanol will provide the country with a greater amount of money to improve the education system (literacy rates will increase, NIR will drop, CBR will drop), health system(life expectancy will rise and infant mortality rates will drop), and GDP per capita will likely rise as well. In fifty years Brazil will be far more successful than it is today because of the world's movement to alternative fuels.