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Reports on the decline of unemployment rate in Brazil in May 2004.

Facing labor shortages back in 1990 but ever wary of allowing in foreigners, Japan made an exception for Japanese-Brazilians. With their Japanese roots, names and faces, these children and grandchildren of Japanese emigrants to Brazil would fit more easily in a society fiercely closed to outsiders, or so the reasoning went. In the two decades since then, despite periodic economic downturns like the current one, the number of Japanese-Brazilian workers in Japan has kept growing. They are clustered in industrial regions dotted with factories supplying familiar companies like Honda, Sanyo and Toyota, whose headquarters gave this city in central Japan its name. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the increase in the unemployment rate in Brazil.

Reports on the rising unemployment rate in Brazil for November 2004, despite efforts of job creation.

Reports on the rise in unemployment in Brazil for the fourth consecutive months of 2004. Number of people looking for work; Unemployment rate.

Reports that Brazil is poised to become a major player in the global steel industry with the help of some deep-pocketed foreign friends. How the combination of abundant raw materials, cheap labor and top-notch technology have made this possible; Brazil's plan to increase its production capacity by more than 30 percent in the next four years; Baosteel Shanghai Group of China, Arcelor of Luxembourg, Dongkuk Steek Mill Company of South Korea and the Italian metals group Danieli, are helping to finance the construction of a $700 million steel slab plant.

Reports on the decrease in the unemployment rate of Brazil, signaling a gradual economic recovery in the country.

Reports on the public dispute between Brazil and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a plan to spend more than $22 billion on social programs. Agreement reached by Brazil and IMF in November 1998; Minimum wage earned by half of the 165 million workforce of Brazil; Proposed plan of Brazil to eradicate poverty.