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...Revenues rose 79 per cent to R$5bn ($896m) last year, while net losses shrank by a quarter to R$230m. Customer deposits increased 2.6 times to R$29bn....
...The state reported debt of R$165bn ($29bn) in 2019, up from R$153bn the previous year and amounting to more than 280 per cent of revenue. “In Rio, inequality kills....
...A study by Ericsson in October found that postponing the auction until 2021 would cost the cash-strapped Brazilian Treasury about R$25bn ($6bn) in lost tax revenues....
...Under the allegations, which were reported in Brazilian media citing the legal documents released from the Supreme Court, Mr Temer directly requested R$1.5m from Mr Machado, then head of Transpetro, in a...
...Papayas, which Layanne needs to help her digestion, used to cost R$5 for eight at the end of last year — now they cost R$5 each, he says....
...In conjunction with the freight railways, the government launched a R$42bn package of motorway concessions to be auctioned within a year....
...“A man will go up to a child and ask him to take a package to the entrance of the favela for R$15 and he does it because R$15 is a lot of money for these kids,” says Ms da Costa, who founded Roupa Suja when...
...You can eat in good restaurants every week, buy flights for R$80 and wear jeans from famous brands. That’s as long as you can keep up with the interminable monthly payments....
...The average income in the area is about one or two minimum wages, or R$622-R$1,244 ($300-$600) per household, according to Caixa....
...Eduardo Santos de Oliveira, another prosecutor in Rio, has filed both civil and criminal lawsuits against the companies demanding a total of R$40bn ($20bn) and that top executives be sent to prison....
...R$400m....
...In April, the fund identified nine new projects totalling R$4bn and the BNDES is studying the real level of long-term demand in the country....
...The total is estimated at R$13.5bn, notes Michael Machado, chief financial officer of concessionaire Santo Antônio Energia....
...A one-bedroom apartment in Cores da Lapa is advertised at R$65,000....
...- they all said they were enjoying a book by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis....
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