Brazil as an emerging market and the importance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Introduction.
- The economic and social situation of Brazil.
- Brazil as an emerging market.
- What are the macroeconomic facts sustaining this emerging market?
- What are the macroeconomic facts threatening this emerging market?
- F.D.I. in Brazil.
- Has Brazil created an attractive environment to F.D.I?
- A closer look to the history of F.D.I in Brazil.
- Evolution of the F.D.I between 1996 and 2007.
- Which sectors benefits from the F.D.I?
- Which countries invest the most in Brazil?
- What are the main factors encouraging the F.D.I?
- What can discourage investors?
- Reference list.
With its free market and export-oriented economy, the Federal Republic of Brazil is currently the leading economic power in Latin America as well as a strong regional leader. The country is nowadays attracting many foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows thanks to efficient macroeconomic reforms notably. But it is to say that the country faced many economic issues in the past to finally be considered by foreign investors as one of the best location in Latin America to develop activities. After providing an economic and social profile of Brazil, we will determine what are the factors threatening and sustaining this emerging market, and finally we will provide a deep analysis of F.D.I. inflows in Brazil (nature and importance of F.D.I., are the national institutions supportive of foreign investors? and so on). According to the C.I.A. website (Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook: Brazil, 2007), the Brazilian G.D.P. was evaluated to U.S. $1.655 trillion (2006 est.), with a real growth rate of +3.7%, for the same year.
