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Infrastructure Enthusiasm Builds in Brazil
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Brazil's infrastructure needs include port and road facilities for its agricultural exports and mining industry. Road and rail transport networks for passengers are small considering Brazil's size. The rail network is smaller than that of France and only 12% of the one million mile road network is paved. Brazilian petroleum fund Petrosal will invest in infrastructure needs. Investments are being made to upgrade port facilities by Santos Brazil, and investment in toll roads by CCR, a private-highways company. The government is planning investments in infrastructure to prepare for the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016.
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Brazil's finance minister says Brazil is following a "developmental economics" model which was more appropriate for Brazil. This includes credit expansion for industry through state owned banks, including efforts to revive the auto industry with loans from state owned Banco de Brazil in 2012.
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