The Mater Dei hospital network is buying 95% of Emec, the largest private hospital in Feira de Santana (state of Bahia), for around R$200 million. This is the group’s second acquisition in the first 40 days of the year. In January, the network disbursed almost R$250 million for Hospital Premium, in Goiânia (state of Goiás). […]
At the age of 14, Celso Athayde’s task was to help his mother take other children from the Favela do Sapo, in Rio de Janeiro’s west zone, to the beach in exchange for payment. The informal business, called “Mãe Praieira”, gave parents the tranquility to go out to work without the fear of leaving their […]
President Jair Bolsonaro early January signed into law the legal framework for local energy generation, the so-called distributed generation. It generated urgency in the development of new projects in Brazil. The sector foresees a “gold rush” this year to guarantee the use of the distributors network, the so-called Tusd. The haste is explained because the […]