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Consumer Behavior in Brazil: Crisis boosts advancement of aviation

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date May 13, 2013
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Legacy 650 by Embraer

Brazil is experiencing one of its best moments in the aviation industry, and today the country with the second largest fleet of jets, behind only the United States and the third most produced aircraft of this type. Ahead of Embraer (a Brazilian local manufacturer), are only the American Cessna and Canadian Bombardier. The good performance is due in large part to the international crisis started in 2008, which created a favorable environment for the purchase of these aircraft in other countries, and the growth of emerging […]

Tags Africa, America, analyst, Aviation Industry, Bank, Banking, Brazil, Britain, China, Consumer Behavior, Economy, Entrepreneur, Environment, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, head, India, Internet, Market, model, Paris, retail, Russia, South Africa, Statistics, United States, Work

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

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date September 18, 2012
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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 […]

Tags Brazil, China, Consumer Behavior, Economy, Hong Kong, India, Luxury Items, luxury products, Market, population, Report, Russia, Singapore

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Watch Esther Duflo’ “Social experiments to fight poverty” talk at TED

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date July 14, 2012
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Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid’s impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it’s possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt — by testing solutions with randomized trials […]

Tags Africa, Development, Economics, India, Media, poverty, TED conference, Work

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Internet in Brazil: ranked 7th largest internet market in the world, says survey

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date March 26, 2012
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Brazil is the seventh largest Internet market in the world, according to research conducted by comScore. The country pass France and is ranked behind China, the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany and India […]

Tags Brazil, China, Computer, Facebook, France, Gaming, Germany, India, Internet, Japan, Market, Mobile Phones, Russia, Social Networks, Technology, United States, Web, Work

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Information Technology in Brazil: IT services push GDP numbers up

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date March 7, 2012
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Segment was the fastest growing in 2011, according to GDP data. market jumped from U.S. $ 59 billion in 2008 to US$ 95 billion in 2011 […]

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Consumer Behavior in Brazil & China: US to increase the number of tourist visas

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date February 2, 2012
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The United States should increase the capacity to process visas for Brazil and China by 40% over the next 12 months, ordered President Barack Obama recently, as part of a stimulus package for tourism for their country, announced in Disney World in Florida […]

Tags America, Barack Obama, Brazil, Chicago, China, Consumer Behavior, Disney, Europe, India, Market, Tourism, United States, White House, Work

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Watch Morgan Spurlock’s “The greatest TED Talk ever sold” talk at TED

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date January 12, 2012
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Morgan Spurlock makes documentary film and TV that is personal, political — and, above all, deeply empathetic […]

Tags Advertising, Amazon, Emotion, Emotional, Film And TV, food, India, Oscar, Pop Cult, Saudi Arabia, TED conference

Consumer Behavior Economics Trend Watching

Consumer Behavior in Brazil: leading in worldwide purchase of mobile phones and HD TVs

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date August 18, 2011
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Brazilian consumers led the purchase of mobile phones, HDTVs, digital cameras and netbooks in a study by consultancy Accenture. The annual survey on electronic products and services, highlighting the emergence of “a new paradigm of consumer technology,” calls attention to the emerging countries’ thirst for consumer electronics, compared to more stable markets of rich countries […]

Tags BBC, Brazil, China, Computer, Consumer Behavior, France, Germany, India, Japan, Laptop, Market, Mobile Phones, population, Report, researcher, Russia, tablet computers, Technology, United States

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Hotel industry experiences building boom

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date August 15, 2011
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China is witnessing an unprecedented boom in hotel construction that is changing the face of the global hospitality industry. The country will have the highest number of hotels under construction and room openings in the world for each of the next two years, according to figures released by Lodging Econometrics, the US-based hotel retail estate market analysts […]

Tags analyst, Asia, Australia, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, China, China Daily, Construction, Consultant, Consumer Behavior, Development, Economy, Europe, Foreigner, France, Gaming, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Hebei, India, Japan, location, London, Market, Nanning, real estate, Report, retail, Russia, Shanghai, Singapore, Tourism, United States, Work

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Design in Brazil: overcoming exchange rate pressure and increasing exports with innovation

Post author By Itamar Medeiros
Post date July 27, 2011
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Despite the devaluation of the dollar is affecting the competitiveness of Brazilian industry — especially manufacturing — companies such as Marcopolo, Anatomic Gel and Inova Electronic Systems have managed to maintain their level of exports and to increase sales to other countries to invest in innovation, refinement and reduction of production costs […]

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