11.11.11 Brazil Focus November issue: Table of contents

SPOTLIGHT

• Who will run in 2014? Lula has cancer; Lula is under highly competent medical care

POLITICS & SOCIETY

• The cost of corruption: Rousseff is making heroic efforts to cleanse the senior echelons of her administration
• Not very sporting: Silva was the sixth Cabinet member to be dismissed
• The rise of PSD
• Politics & society in brief: New worker legislation; Battisti resident visa

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

• Gabrielli remains optimistic: Between 2015 and 2020, the company will receive another 28 drills
• The royalties battle: A simultaneous initiative is in motion, however, to promote the interests of non-producing states
• The Pernambuco refinery: Speaking with Sarney?
• ANP news: Auction administration
• Petrobras news: Getting up to petaflop speed
• Environmental issues: Curbing Cubatão emissions
• Bio-fuels in brief: Ethanol sales dropping

ECONOMY & BUSINESS

• The economic picture: That should bring down economic growth
• The mining sector: The government plans to introduce important legislative changes
• The automotive sector: Building new plants
• Economy in brief: Taxing Brazil

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

• Rousseff in Africa: A Brazilian trade delegation will visit Angola in November.
• Brazil at the G-20: Financial ministers mull things over
• Brazilian development co-operation: These credits have gone to finance infrastructure projects
• A presidential itinerary
• Diplomatic briefs: Portuguese meeting; Summit sparsely attended
• International trade: Chinese slow down?