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4.5 Other factors

Infrastructure

a) 67 airports with annual flow of 110 million people.

b) 46 ports with capacity for over 600 million tons/year.

c) 29,596 km of railways † the eleventh world railway mesh.

d) 1.6 million km of roads † the third world road mesh.

e) 100% digital telephone lines in Brazil.

f) Brazil has one of the best communication structures with 125 million mobile

lines, at about 42 million fixed lines and more than 1 million public telephones.

g) Brazil and the private sector will jointly, through the Growth Acceleration

Program of the Brazilian Government, invest US$313 billion in roads, railways

and ports until 2010.

Natural resources

a) One of the worldwide largest producer and exporter of agricultural products.

b) The world’s largest producer of ethanol, with 308 installed production plants,

producing 17,7 billion liters per year.

c) The world’s largest producer of iron ore.

d) The worldwide largest producer and exporter of coffee, sugar cane and fruit juices.

e) The world’s largest exporter of soy, meat, chicken and leather.

f) Self-sufficient in oil, going from net importer in 2005 to net exporter, representing

the sixth exportable sector in the Brazilian foreign trade.

g) The Brazil’s energetic matrix has 45% of renewable sources whilst for the world this

ratio is 14%.

Innovation and technology

a) Brazil has the biggest and most diversified science, technology and innovation system

of Latin America.

b) It has a competitive differential within the sectors of aircraft building, oil exploration

in depth water and software development.

c) Brazil has internationally consolidated its competence in producing ethanol and

biodiesel fuel.

d) Excellency in the equipment production and medical hospital services supply.

e) In 2006, there were 9.396 new graduated students at the doctor’s level and 29.761 at

the master’s in...