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Investing in Brazil's Future
by Emma Humphries
In June of 2015, Brazil announced a $64 billion spending package, hoping to
revive its slow economy with investment in highways, railroads, ports, and airports.
Businesses and analysts have long pointed to poor infrastructure as a drag on
Brazil's economy. "We're here not just to announce big numbers and ambitious
projects. We're here especially to renew our commitment to the development of
our country," said Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Her Planning Minister,
Nelson Barbosa, added, "The time has come to build the basis for a new cycle of
development and growth for the country."

This passage BEST reflects which of the following economic relationships?

Group of answer choices

Investments in the future delay economic growth.

Investments in capital increase economic growth

Transportation investments lead to political support.

Capital investments promote educational investments.

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Question 225 pts
Spurring Innovation in Latin America
by Emma Humphries
Support networks and venture capital funds have created a new business culture
in Latin America. This has resulted in more successful businesses — including
those aimed at Latin America's growing and increasingly Internet-connected
middle class — as well as companies aiming to serve poorer populations. For
example, MercadoLibre, a South American online auction house; PedidosYa, an
online food delivery service; Restorando, an online restaurant reservation
service; and Buscalibre, a Chilean online book retailer, all fit into niches that
cater to Latin America's middle class by providing easier ways to access
services for busy, working consumers.

This passage speaks primarily to which of the following trends in Latin America?

Group of answer choices

globalism

entrepreneurship

foreign investment

innovative education

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Question 325 pts
Building toward Rio
by Jan Sznurkowski
Isabela owns and manages Isabela's Ironworks, a small iron refinery in Pará,
Brazil. She built her refinery in Pará because much of Brazil's iron ore is mined in
that state. Knowing that demand for pig iron would increase once the construction
of new stadiums for the 2016 Rio Olympics began, in 2014 Isabela purchased two
new blast furnaces capable of refining iron ore into pig iron. In order to pay for the
furnaces, Isabela took out a business loan backed by her own personal property
as well as the refinery's property

Group of answer choices

pig iron

iron ore

blast furnaces

business loans

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Question 425 pts
The war on drugs in Latin America is a major issue slowing regional
development. Cocaine production is most prominent in Colombia, Peru, and
Bolivia. Drugs are brought into the United States through Central America and
Mexico. US-supported efforts to slow the drug trade have been only
moderately successful. This is due in large part to government corruption in Latin
America and secret cooperation between Latin American leaders and the
region's major drug dealers. Tens of thousands of Latin Americans have been
killed in violence associated with the drug trade.

Which is an effect of the drug trade on Latin American governments?

Group of answer choices

The drug trade has led to economic reform throughout much of Latin America

The drug trade has weakened democracy throughout much of Latin America.

The drug trade has reduced US influence over governments in Latin America.

The drug trade has eliminated the existence of military dictatorships in Latin America.

Answer 1

1. Investments in capital increase economic growth

2. Entrepreneurship

3. Blast furnaces

4. The drug trade has weakened democracy throughout much of Latin America.