Daily Archives: August 4, 2011

Brazil IT for sale: we want your views

Is it essential for a nation to build its own cars, or toys, or ships? Do indigenous companies have an advantage over the competition when it comes to retaining innovation within the same country, or is this attitude just nationalistic flag-waving?

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Unions up in arms over Brazilian industrial policy

Workers’ associations across a range of sectors including IT are not happy about the new Brazilian industrial policy launched earlier this week by president Dilma Rousseff, believing that tax cuts, aimed at stimulating industry sectors such as IT, will just … Continue reading

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