edc brazil Flashcards
How many Brazilian migrants live abroad (2013)?
1.77 million
What is the Brazilian population?
210 million
How many Brazilians are unemployed?
13.5 million
What was Operation Car Wash?
Involved money laundering
Charged more than what it was worth ( to give money to politicians)
What % of Brazil’s economy is put towards services?
69%
What has caused the influx of migration between Brazil and Japan?
Japan-Brazil immigration agreement of 1908
1 million Japanese migrants in Sao Paulo
What are the current Brazil migration patterns?
Net deficit (loss of 500 000 over 4 years) USA and Japan have large Brazilian diasporas
Brazil and Portugal migration links
Language, culture, history all similar
More remittancea
Brazil and USA migration links
Links with food and agricultural businesses
US AID
Brazil and Haiti migration links
Poorest country in Western Hemisphere
Brazil give aid (politically, economically, socially)
% increase in GDP between 2007 and 2014
19%
Net migration loss between 2000-2010
1 million
Europe, the USA and Japan
Emigration of highly skilled to
Value of remittances in 2014 (billion)
$2.4 billion
% of GDP accounted for by remittances
0.1%
