Organizations Dedicated to Individual Liberties and Free Markets in Brazil:
- Instituto Ordem Livre – Part of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Instituto Ludwig von Mises Brasil
- Estudantes Pela Liberdade (Students for Liberty, Brazil)
- Instituto Liberal
- Instituto Liberal de São Paulo
- Movimento Brasil Livre
- Instituto Millenium
- Líderes do Amanhã
- Instituto de Formação de Líderes
- Instituto de Estudos Empresariais
- Instituto Liberdade
International Trade & Business:
- BrazilTradeNet – Brazil’s Trade and Investment Promotion Department – an arm of Itamaraty
- ApexBrasil (Agência Brasileira de Promoção de Exportadores e Investimentos) – Brazil’s Trade and Investment Promotion Agency
- SECEX (Secretaria da Receita Federal do Brasil) – Brazil’s federal government agency responsible for administration of taxes and customs control
- ComprasNet – Brazil’s federal e-procurement portal
- Brazil’s tax system – list of taxes and their definitions
- WTO’s profile for Brazil
- UN’s Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin America and the Caribbean – Find trade disputes between Brazil and other members of the WTO or Mercosul
- Página Brasileira do Mercosul – Brazil’s homepage for Mercosul issues
- Mercado Comum do Sul (Mercosul/Mercosur) – Official homepage for the Southern Common Market
- BBC’s Mercosul profile
- Canal Mercosul – UOL claims this is the best and largest resource for the Mercosul
- World Bank’s Doing Business 2011 profile for Brazil
- US Commercial Service’s Country Commercial Guide for Brazil
- UK Trade and Investment’s Doing Business in Brazil guide
- The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom 2010 profile for Brazil
- Foreign Investment in Brazil – A 2004 publication by a Brazilian law firm
Economics and Development:
- Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) – Brazil’s Institute of Applied Economic Research
- Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) – Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Program
- Banco Nacional do Desenvolvimento (BNDES) – Brazilian Development Bank
- Bolsa de Valores, Mercadorias & Futuros de São Paulo (BM&FBOVESPA) – The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) merged with São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa)
- Estados@ – Statistical data for Brazil’s 26 states and federal district
- Banco Central do Brasil – Central Bank of Brazil
- Copa 2014 – Brazil’s developmental plans for World Cup 2014
- Jogos Rio 2016 – Brazil’s developmental plans for Olympic and Paralympic Games 2016
- Rio 2016 – Rio de Janeiro’s developmental plans for Olympic and Paralympic Games 2016
International Relations and Politics:
- Ministério das Relações Exteriores (Itamaraty) – Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations
- Itamaraty’s Temas Políticos e Relações Bilaterais – Find bilateral agreements, statistics and international relations information for Brazil and other countries – great resource!
- União de Nações Sul-Americanas (UNASUL/UNASUR) – Official homepage for the Union of South American Nations
- Instituto Rio Branco – Brazil’s government-run graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy in Brasília
- Reporters Without Borders profile for Brazil
- Freedom House’s Countries at the Crossroads 2010 profile for Brazil – A breakdown of freedoms in Brazil by category
- CIA World Factbook profile for Brazil
- Brazil’s government hierarchy (visual map)
- Brazil’s government hierarchy (text)
Head of State:
- President Elect Dilma Rousseff: official campaign biography (English, Spanish & Portuguese), full profile by VotoCerto.com (Portuguese), profile by BBC News, biography at UOL Educação (Portuguese), profile at O Globo (Portuguese), profile at Telegraph.co.uk
- Incumbent: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: official website (Portuguese), photo/bio (Portuguese)
Educational Resources:
-
PhD program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Graduate program with concentration in Luso-Brazilian Studies from University of Florida
- Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Other:
- Portal da Transparência – Brazil’s Transparency Portal – (If you’re looking for government expenditures for specific programs, ministries, etc. this is the place to go!)
- Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (Celpe-Bras) – Portuguese aptitude certification for foreigners offered by Brazil’s Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação)
- Histórica Brasileira – A historical resource covering colonial, imperial and the current republic
- Petrobras – Brazil’s (mostly) state-owned oil & energy company
- Eletrobras – Brazil’s power utility company
- Índice de Transparência – A non-governmental organization which provides a transparency ranking index for Brazilian state governments and Brasília (the federal district)
- Federal Institutions of Brazil (Wiki)
- Brazilian government links – From the website of Consulate General of Brazil in Houston
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