Comments for Despite Red Tape and High Taxes Brazil Makes the Case to Draw Foreign Investors at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:47:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8747/54/#pc_11513 Whoaaaaaaaa.....they are really trusting you !!!! Arent they ? Dont worry in the next decade or so it will amount to 0,5 %. Just figure it the Brazilian way : it makes a good compound growth rate. - ch.c. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:14:17 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8747/54/#pc_11498 Last year, Lebanon was the Arab country that invested the most in Brazil, at US$ 2.3 million, and Bahrain ranked second, at US$ 1.05 million after I read the above. For christ's sake, my 3 english partners and myself have invested more in Brazil in the last three years than the #1 Arab country did last year!! For a country that amount of money is NOTHING. And I have to be frank, with the xenophobic and paranoid brazilians and brazilian congress passing laws that limit the amount of land a foreign company, or now, a brazilian company that has foreigners as partners, can purchase, it'd doing quite a bit more than sending mixed messages. Recently returning from a trip to the states and coming back "home" to the banks being on strike, the post office being on strike, and all the other beurocracies and corrupt practices that I've personally experienced over the last three years making a foreign investment in brazil, I can say from not only my own personal experience, but from several other foreigners that I know that are partners in brazilian companies or foreign companies making a foreign investment in brazil, there's just so many other places that don't have half the risk or beurocracy that exists here in Brazil. The Arabs will learn quickly, just like the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Italians, the English, and the Americans. - bo Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:43:14 +0100