“Brazil has risen to become the world’s seventh-largest economy, propelled by a commodities boom, a demographic dividend, and rising consumption,” the authors write. “Yet it ranks 95th in per capita GDP. This disparity can be at least partly explained by its 43rd-place ranking for ‘connectedness’ in terms of flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data and communications.”
Read the full opinion piece, published 6/16/14 by Project Syndicate.
