Comments for Brazil Opens Market and Offers Zero Tariff to Poorest Countries at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:33:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/5525/1/#pc_2296 ...it is unfair that a in a developed nation the average worker earns let say US$ equivalent of 50000.- per year while the average Brazilian worker earns the equivalent of US$ 7000.-- ! The appropriate question should be why have the economical and political decisions taken in the last 50 years by Brazilian governments resulted in giving only actually US$ 7000.- per averaghe worker compared to the developed nations average worker earning US$ 50000.- !!!!!! Then do your own analysis of what you did/still do wrong....what they did/still do correctly...and finally you just copy those who succeeded and not re-copy your own lamentable failures. If you are unable to have not only your own self criticisms but also unable to find what should be done......just re- read what has been told to you in writing so many times by International agencies. When you accuse them, as you do now, that it is their fault, but nor yours (of course), sorry but in the meantime those who followed their recommendations have grown far more than Brazil did. Simple demonstration that what has been told you was not as bad as you say now ! It is not because you failed to follow proper recommendations that what was told you in length was bad ! It is like building a house. If you did not know and still dont know how to build a solid house despite having been explained how to do, at the end it is the house where you will live, not our house ! The commitment and accountability to succeed is totally unknown in Brazil with brazilian politicians and elected people. They only know how to succeed for themselves, not for what they are supposed to do and not for what their mission is on behalf of the voters who elected them ! - Guest Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:13:53 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/5525/1/#pc_2281 ...subsidizes at a rate of US$ 1 billion a day ! Not even the USA ! Put a name on the countries as you say (not 1 country by definition) that subsidizes as much ! On the other hand it should not be difficult to find out that Brazil subsidizes more than anyone else in this world if we compare the rate of subsidies to the national GDP ! Obviously a developed nation would subsidize more in total amount because the country is far bigger than Brazil economically, but still would represent a lower rate of subsidies if compared to the GDP than what Brazil does ! Afterall the U.K has a GDP of US$ 2 trillion with a population a third or less than Brazil. But Brazil has only less than half the U.K. GDP !!!!! Therefore you cannot compare the dollar amounts but only what it represents to the respective countries ! - Guest Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:51:49 +0100