Brazil Nuts

Brazil, one of the world's richest economies alongside a social world among the poorest. Much of the arable land is controlled by a handful of wealthy families. In the big cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, a third of the population lives in favelas, or slums. With the exception of six countries, Brazil is ahead of all the world's countries in the value of production, but according to UNESCO, at 88th place in education.

Brazil is the seventh in the value of GDP, but according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the 55th country in the per capita income, a power inhabited by poor people.

The world's seventh economy, but according to Transparency International, due to corruption, 69th place in the order of countries with ethics in politics. The perfect grade is 10; Brazil has a grade of 3.7.

According to the World Bank, Brazil is the world's 8th worse country in terms of income concentration, better only than Guatemala, Swaziland, the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia.

The seventh economic power but of our children's school attendance, in hours per day, days per year and years over the course of a lifetime, is among the worse in the entire world with the greatest inequality in each person's education, depending upon the income of the student's parents. The 10% richest Brazilians receive educational investments nearly 20 times greater than the 10% poorest.. A UNESCO report released in March shows that the majority of the world's illiterate adults live in only ten countries. Brazil is one of them, with 14 million, with the added aggravation that, in Brazil, which has a national flag inscribed with the words "Ordem e Progresso," they cannot even recognize on their own flag. From 1889 to today, Brazil reached the seventh position in the world in the economy, but now have almost three times more illiterate adult Brazilians than in that year, besides our 30 to 40 million functional illiterates. According to a study of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which researched 46 countries, Brazil remains in last place in the percentage of young people completing secondary school. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), teacher remuneration lags behind countries like Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and the Philippines.

Brazil is the seventh power, but has illnesses like dengue fever, malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis. Some 22% of the population lives without running water and more than half without sewerage connections. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 43% of Brazilian homes, 25 million, are not considered adequate for habitation; they do not have the combination of running water, sanitary drainage and garbage collection.