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Since the 1970s, Brazil has made the energy sector a central element of its economy, and hydroelectric plants have become the solution for electricity production. This decade saw significant investment in hydropower, involving the construction of the world’s largest hydropower plants such as Itaipu, Tucuruí, and the Paulo Afonso Hydroelectric Complex.

In the rail sector, the World Bank’s experience working on urban transport in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP), coupled with IFC’s advisory services on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), led to a direct request from the Governor of the State of São Paulo for the World Bank Group to provide high-level strategic advice in the potential to structure a PPP to operate the planned intercity train service and upgrade the urban rail Metro Line 7 in MRSP.

Understanding the industry structure of banking services in Brazil is an important task both for the financial community at large and for country specialists. The Brazilian financial system is the largest and most sophisticated in Latin America. This study is organized into five sections after the introduction, in line with the main analytical building blocks, and complemented by appendices that describe methodological aspects in more detail.

Banks in Brazil are mandated by law to lend at least 35% of their deposits to the agriculture sector, and agriculture credit is the main policy instrument used by the government to influence farmers’ production and marketing decisions. The sums directed by these programs into the agriculture sector are vast, and the impacts are enormous.

Increasing the energy efficiency in the electricity sector by 10% and promoting clean technology and energy efficiency in the industrial and transportation sectors; Achieve, in the Brazilian Amazonia, zero illegal deforestation by 2030 and compensating for greenhouse gas emissions from legal suppression of vegetation by 2030;

Understanding the industry structure of banking services in Brazil is an important task both for the financial community at large and for country specialists. The Brazilian financial system is the largest and most sophisticated in Latin America. This study is organized into five sections after the introduction, in line with the main analytical building blocks, and complemented by appendices that describe methodological aspects in more detail.

Forty-six percent of Brazilian banks’ non-financial corporate loan portfolio is concentrated in sectors highly or very highly dependent on one or more ecosystem services. Output losses associated with the collapse in ecosystem services could translate into a cumulative long-term increase in corporate nonperforming loans of 9 percentage points.

African delegates noted three main takeaways from the Brazilian TVET system: Private sector management of the training levy. Unlike in many African countries, in Brazil, the training levy (a tax levied on private firms by government for the purpose of training) is managed by a private sector non-profit organization, SENAI. In most developing countries, the levy and the training provided from it are managed by the public sector.

Paraiba State, Brazil : Agricultural Sector Risk Assessment c b Tweet Like Download English PDF 6.195MB Text file 510.8KB Published 2015-11 Author (s) Arias, Diego Caballero, Jorge Metadata Show full item record This report is comprised of two volumes: (i) volume one: risk assessment; and (ii) volume two: risk management strategy.