Bridging the Atlantic: Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa

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According to a recent survey, almost 60 percent of Brazilian technical cooperation resources went to African countries in 2010. This World Bank study, in cooperation with IPEA, sheds light on relationships that are deepening and changing, producing different dynamics in the international integration of people, and promoting development partnerships. Marcio Pochmann President IPEA

Bridging the Atlantic: Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa

Published on Apr 30, 2012

World Bank Publications

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Bridging the Atlantic is a descriptive study about Brazil’s involvement with counterparts in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade through knowledge exchange, trade, and investments. The objective of the study is to understand these relations better with the intent to forge concrete and mutually beneficial partnerships between Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa. Two elements explain the focus on the last decade. Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa are natural partners, with at one point a shared geography and later a shared history. Between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the transatlantic slave trade united the two regions until slavery’s abolition. Now, the two areas are reestablishing connections that will affect each other’s prosperity and development in major ways.

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