Helen Joyce
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181 appearances
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first heard Dec 2012
last heard Jan 2015
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It's also, just as sadly, about the ratio at the moment of inflation in Brazil to growth.
You may remember that Brazil was one of the brick economies, the large emerging markets that were growing fast and that were going to transform the world's economy.
That was a few years ago.
Now we have a country that's perilously close to stagflation.
It's got 7% approximately of its inflation and it's growing at even less than 1%.
For me, this ratio sums up two ways in which Brazil has disappointed in the last few years since its arrival on the world stage.
And I hope that this country that I still believe has huge, huge potential and for which I'm rooting can turn this around and make it 1 to 7 in the future.
I'm Helen Joyce, the international editor of The Economist, and my number of the year, it's actually a ratio, it's 7 to 1.
It means two things to me as a former Brazil correspondent for The Economist, and both of them sad.
One of them is the score that Germany got against Brazil in July in the semi-final of the World Cup.
Germany got 7, Brazil went out on a humiliating 1.
It's also, just as sadly, about the ratio at the moment of inflation in Brazil to growth.
You may remember that Brazil was one of the brick economies, the large emerging markets that were growing fast and that were going to transform the world's economy.
That was a few years ago.
Now we have a country that's perilously close to stagflation.
It's got 7% approximately of its inflation and it's growing at even less than 1%.
For me, this ratio sums up two ways in which Brazil has disappointed in the last few years since its arrival on the world stage.
As soon as you talk about anything, say it's corruption, education, women's status...
Someone has done a country ranking of it.
And we started to think, how well are these done?
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