After years of benefiting from robust commodity markets, Brazil enters 2024 facing an economic slowdown. The forecast shows a significant drop in the grain harvest and a prediction of only 1.60% GDP growth, down from nearly 3% the previous year. This trend underlines Brazil’s ongoing dependency on commodities, a reliance that poses both challenges and […]
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