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How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect Brazil

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The Industrial Revolution transformed the culture and lives of the people of Europe and the United States. Modernization a good thing for all countries and will bring prosperity for its people. However not all countries have the funds to provide for the modernization. Countries like Brazil have to take out loans from a bank that has the funds necessary to provide the means.

In the case of the proposal to fund Brazil with dams, irrigation, power, roads, and funds to develop crops the World Bank has those funds. As a representative of the World Bank, this proposal is currently not very wise and the impact it will have on the people of Brazil will not be a positive one, and that it will not yield a great return to the World Bank unless some adjustments to the proposal are made. …show more content…

It will then in turn, raise Brazil’s availability to export its sugar and rubber production, because the populace will be able to have jobs where currently only 30 percent now hold jobs. However here are some obstacles that will need to be overcome.

If this loan is to be successful additional funds may be necessary in order to provide assistance to the indigenous people and rubber tappers. If we are to relocate the population into the tropical forests of Amazon by building roads, we are going to have to deal with the local indigenous people and rubber tappers feeling intruded on. Because the indigenous people and rubber tappers largely inhabit it we will need to find a way to integrate them with the farmers that are willing to relocate and settle in that new territory without disturbing the local people

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