EDC - Brazil

• 7th largest economy globally, largest in Latin America, MERCOSUR member with Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina
• 2007 - US $ 4874, 2014 - 5823, 6% primary, 25% secondary, 69% tertiary
• Stage 4 of DTM due to declining birth rate and ageing population
• Internal migration from NE to SE due to more tourism in Rio
• 1950 - 64% rural, 36% urban, 2020 - 10% rural, 90% urban, 38% living in slums in 1980, 29% in 2007
• 2000-2004, 2005-2009 - 500,000 net migration loss, 2010-2014 - 190,000 net migration loss
• USA - emigration of low-skilled slowing down, high-skilled increasing, returnees (20k) have skills for Brazil's development
• Portugal - bilateral relationship (140k each way), shared language, former colony, gateway to EU
• Haiti - increasing low-skilled economic immigration for construction work, visas easy to obtain
• 2013 - 1.77 million living abroad, 2000 - 0.98 million, USA has most for economic reasons
• Prejudice and discrimination in labour market and society against black people (from Angola due to political instability) and indigenous peoples
• Remittances from USA, Japan and Portugal improve development in Brazil (2.4 billion dollars, 0.1% GDP)
• Language is a barrier - engineers, IT experts and finance professionals needed who speak Portuguese and English
• Historically Europeans involved in coffee cultivation, Japanese in agriculture and industry