Cash transfer programs are taking up more space in the government’s welfare budget. The change gained strength with the pandemic and tends to continue at least this year, with cash transfer program Auxílio Brasil. At the same time, some public policy experts warn that the federal government has paid less attention to social programs that […]
In the mid-1990s, a 21-year-old boy approached the management of chocolate manufacturer Lacta offering the use of bacteria as a solution to a problem in the production line. “You’re crazy,” was what he heard. Sometime later, however, the then tie salesman Luiz Chacon heard a very different reaction from the same executives. “Set up a […]
While the trade balance as a whole ended 2021 with a record surplus, the manufacturing industry saw its deficit deepen to $53.3 billion, the worst result since 2014. In the pre-pandemic period, in 2019, the negative balance was $42 billion, according to data from the Institute for Industrial Development Studies (IEDI). In another type of […]