Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Brazil Really is the (Formerly) Sleeping Giant: Brazilian States as Nations

From the Economist:

Which countries match the GDP and population of Brazil's states?
THE notion that Brazil is in the vanguard of a group of emerging countries on their way to economic superpower-dom is so widely accepted as to have become trite. But how far along this road is Brazil? One way to get a quick answer is to compare Brazilian states with countries....MORE