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#NewWorldReport: : The boomtown of Green Gold in Mato Grosso State. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

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#NewWorldReport: : The boomtown of Green Gold in Mato Grosso State. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

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0:00.0

This is a new world report and we've got new the

0:05.0

This is CBS, I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Ernesta Aruja, former foreign minister, the Republic of Brazil.

0:11.0

This is a new world report and we've got new. The precarious future facing

0:16.4

Brazil's new boom towns reads the financial times. But what I'm looking at is a photograph of what appears to be a perfectly laid out boomtown

0:27.1

around large bins.

0:29.2

This is Boa Esperanza de Don Norte, Ernesto will correct my pronunciation.

0:35.7

In the Mato Graso space, this is the former parts of the country that were not developed but they're now a boom down because of agriculture.

0:47.0

Brazil feeds the world and this is what is striking about this is that it's not under government control. This looks like

0:54.5

gold was discovered. Is that how it's regarded in Brazil?

0:58.0

Oh yes John very much so it's the thriving sector of the Brazilian economy for many years now

1:04.4

agriculture agribusiness especially in that region which was kind of away from

1:11.0

everything people hardly knew about the existence of those states,

1:15.2

Mato Grosso, the soul, and now they have this booming economy which is

1:20.1

translating into better social indicators.

1:24.8

That's one important thing.

1:26.0

So it's something that prickles down to the people.

1:29.1

If you look at the life expectancy indicators and all that sort of indicator.

1:36.0

They are improving a lot and those, especially those true two states are today among the five

1:41.6

or six best states in Brazil in terms of the quality of living.

1:47.0

The other aspect is, as you mentioned, this is private-led growth.

1:52.0

In Brazil for decades people created this sort of approach that the

1:59.0

economy can only grow by the hand of the state that the state has to interfere and to produce and to

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