Diogo Rodriguez

Online shopping fuels piracy surge in Brazil

Counterfeit football shirts for 10 percent of the official price have become commonplace in Brazil. And the market spreads much…

6 months ago

Central Bank continues rate cuts amid deficit jitters

To no one's surprise, the Brazilian Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee has reduced the country's benchmark interest rate by half…

6 months ago

Tax default rates among individual micro-entrepreneurs drop sharply

The Federal Revenue Service has disclosed that more than 6.4 million individual micro-entrepreneurs (known in Brazil by the MEI acronym)…

6 months ago

Despite recent economic slowdown, Brazil’s job market keeps improving

While economic indicators show that the Brazilian economy is slowing down, nothing points to the country’s job market cooling down.…

6 months ago