Doing business

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Brazil

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Brazil (ⁱ/brəˈzɪl/; Portuguese: Brasil [bɾaˈziw] ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil,  listen  ), is the largest sovereign state in both South America and the Latin American region. It is the world's fifth-largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas.

Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and occupies 47.3 percent of the continent of South America. Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection.

Business

A business, also known as an enterprise, agency or a firm, is an entity involved in the provision of goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers in exchange for other goods, services, or money. Businesses may also be social not-for-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises targeted for specific social and economic objectives. A business owned by multiple individuals may be formed as an incorporated company or jointly organised as a partnership. Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the various business entities.

Business can refer to a particular organization or to an entire market sector, e.g. "the music business". Compound forms such as agribusiness represent subsets of the word's broader meaning, which encompasses all activity by suppliers of goods and services. The goal is for sales to be more than expenditures resulting in a profit.

Ricardo Amorim

Ricardo Amorim is a Brazilian economist. He was described as "Brazil's most influential economist" by Forbes magazine.

Career

Amorim holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of São Paulo and conducted graduate work in International Finance and Business at ESSEC Business School in Paris.

He is one of the hosts of the roundtable TV show Manhattan Connection on GloboNews, and is an economics and financial markets columnist at ISTOÉ Magazine.

He was one of the few economists to anticipate Brazil’s electricity crisis in 2001, the US real estate and financial crisis in 2008, Emerging Markets’ decoupling from the 2009 global financial crisis and Europe´s 2011/2012 sovereign crisis. Following a twenty-year career in financial institutions in the USA, Brazil and Europe, he returned to Brazil in 2008 after eight years working in Wall Street. In Brazil, he started Ricam Consultoria, a financial consulting firm that advises on economics, finance, investment and strategy.

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