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...Jonathan Cushing, head of global health at Transparency International, says: “It is effectively a race to the bottom: whoever signs over the most, will get the vaccines quickest”....
...His replacement, Nelson Barbosa, for all his attempted assurances to investors, was the architect of Ms Rousseff’s “New Economic Matrix” that did so much damage during her first four years in office....
...But to do so would destroy the court’s credibility, which is high and rising under the leadership of the mensalão trial by Joaquim Barbosa, the first black Brazilian to be appointed to the institution, who...
...Composer Jonathan Dove has even written in, Lan tells me, the minute timelag caused by the technology, as performers and singers work in unison across the world....
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com BG: michael.kavanagh@ft.com...
...Finance director Ashley Almanza is stepping down in March (he will continue with BG for up to two years), to be replaced by Fabio de Oliveira Barbosa, the former numbers man at Brazilian miner Vale....
...“This has more to do with politics than foreign exchange,” says Rubens Barbosa, a former Brazilian ambassador to London and Washington. “Brazil is moving closer to China than to the US and Europe.”...
...Mr Barbosa was speaking on a call to discuss Vale’s annual results for 2009, which showed a sharp fall in net profits to $5.35bn from $13.22bn in 2008....
...asks Jonathan Wheatley. Medical tourism rarely combines medical procedures and tourism quite as literally as it does in Brazil....
...“The world knows it cannot go forward without these countries,” says Rubens Barbosa, a former ambassador to London and Washington....
...Almir Barbosa, head of investor relations, said Petrobras would need to raise a further $10bn to cover its investments in 2010 and that the extra funds would not come from the national development bank....
...Additional reporting by Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo...
...“No other developing country is doing this,” Mr Barbosa says....
...“This is the big contradiction,” says Rubens Barbosa, former ambassador to London and Washington....
...Mr Barbosa welcomed the cut. "It shows inflation is completely under control," he said....
...Rubens Barbosa, a former Brazilian ambassador to Washington, said the apparent contradiction reflected the low priority given to Brazil and Latin America by US policymakers....
...Two goals in the space of six second-half minutes gave Sporting a 4-2 aggregate victory in Thursday night's Uefa Cup quarter-final and dashed, once again, their dreams of European glory, writes Jonathan...
...The incident confirms that Brazil “is a kind of black hole” for the US, says Rubens Barbosa, a former Brazilian ambassador to Washington....
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