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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Chinese middle class to fuel global luxury spending

Millions of consumers entering the middle class in China will help to hold the pace of growth in global luxury spending at 10 percent annually for the next four years despite a slowing economy […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: private aviation market in boom

China’s private aviation market is on the verge of experiencing a sonic boom. Since 2008, the number of jets registered on the mainland has tripled to 137, and experts expect that digit to soar past 1,000 by the end of the decade […]

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Economics Information Technology Trend Watching

Information Technology in Brazil: Launching Investment Program to Boost Software and IT Industry

Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) has unveiled a new Strategic Program for Software and Information Technology in Brazil, announcing R$ 500 million (approximately US$ 248 million) in planned investments from 2012-2015 to build and strengthen Brazil’s competitiveness in this sector [..]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 100 million Tourists Will Travel Outside China by 2020

WTO estimates that 100 million Chinese tourists will travel outside China by 2020; 4.6 million Chinese tourists are expected to visit Europe in 2012 […]

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China Economics Trend Watching

Internet in China: Rural Internet usage reaches 18.5%

Although there are over 700 million Chinese people classified as living in rural areas, only about 125 million of them use the Internet. That’s a penetration rate of 18.5%*, far below the urban Chinese rate of 50% […]

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Internet in Brazil: Half of the population is included in the digital world, says survey

More than half of the population is included in the digital world, according to a survey of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, which puts Brazil near the world average […]

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Design in Brazil: Creative industry sector directly employs about 800,000 people in the country

The Brazilian talent is being recognized internationally, and Brazilian entrepreneurship is so particular that is becoming export product. Watch this short report (in Portuguese) […]

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Internet in China: users hit more than 500 million, growth reaching a plateau

The ‘report’ shows that as of the end of December 2011, the scale of Chinese netizens hit more than 500 million. The Internet penetration rate increased by 4% compared with 2010, and had shown a declined increasing rate compared with the increasing rate of 6% for each year since 2007. It deserves to pay additional attention that Chinese website amount sees rapid rising after completion of downtrend in the second half year of 2011 […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Where the Chinese Millionaires and Super Rich Live

According to Hurun Research Institute, there are a total of 2.7 million dollar millionaires in China and those in Beijing, Guangdong and Shanghai combined represent almost half of total dollar millionaires (47.6%) […]

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Internet in Brazil: Stores that only sell over the Internet already represent 20% of Brazilian e-commerce

The e-commerce in Brazil has increased six times, 16 years after being implanted, and corresponds to 2% of sales of all retail sales. The average value of purchases in physical stores and online is R$ 411 (around 200 US dollars). Watch a short report (in Portuguese) after the fold […]