According to IBGE, informal work in Brazil reaches the largest contingent since 2016, with 41.4% of the employed population, which corresponds to 38.4 million people

According to the IBGE, Brazil has 11.6 million workers without a formal contract in the private sector, a number that does not include domestic employees. This total represents an expansion of 4% in relation to 2018. This is the highest level of the historical series started in 2012. The number of self-employed workers reached the highest level in the series, rising to 24.2 million, with the most (19.3 million), without CNPJ. The number also represents an increase of 3.9 million people since 2012. In comparison with 2018, the expansion was 4.1% (958 thousand).

Therefore, informality reached 41.1% of the employed population, equivalent to 38.4 million people, the largest contingent since 2016, despite the stability in relation to 2018.

Economically, it is brutal for a country when informality reaches 41% of the labor market. If we take into account the growth of temporary and part-time contracts, Brazil is undergoing a dramatic change for the worse in employment.

It is not possible to consider the fall in the unemployment rate to be positive when it is a direct result of the growth of informality. The reason is simple: selling things on the street and working intermittently 4 hours a day is underemployment.

Jair Bolsonaro's government promises a deficit in 2019 of between R$ 70 billion and R$ 80 billion, but the government ended last year with a primary deficit of R$ 95.1 billion

According to the newspaper Correio Braziliense, data released by the National Treasury show that the deficit recorded last year is R $ 43.9 billion less than the target forecast for 2019, which was a negative result of R $ 139 billion. The result is also 23.7% better than in 2018 when the gap reached R $ 120 billion. However, the gap was much larger than the government had promised.

Jair Bolsonaro's government had promised a deficit in 2019 between R$ 70 billion and R$ 80 billion, but the government ended last year with a primary deficit of R$ 95.1 billion, that is, more than 15 billion above the government's forecast.

Despite the result being the best since 2014 after Economy Minister Paulo announced that the deficit in 2019 was expected to be R$ 80 billion. Then, Mansueto Almeida, secretary of the Treasury, even said that the 2019 deficit would be R$ 70 billion. For this reason, the final result is frustrating, if we consider the communications of the registry and the secretary. Therefore, this government's inability to communicate with the media can worsen even when the results are not so bad.

Extreme weather: rains close to three times the average in the last five days in Minas Gerais, Brazil, causing 53 dead, one person missing, 65 injured and leaving more than 4 thousand homeless and more than 28 thousand displaced from their homes

The number of deaths due to the rains in Minas Gerais in the last few days has reached 53. Since October 2019, 64 people have died in Minas Gerais in rains that behave as extreme weather events. Until then, the highest number of deaths had been 18, in the 2016/2017 and 2018/2019 rainy seasons.

According to the G1 website, the latest balance released by the State Civil Defense of Minas Gerais, published on Tuesday (28), 28,893 people are displaced and another 4,397 have lost their homes due to intense rains. More than 100 cities have already ruled out an emergency situation.

Videos of scary rain scenes in Belo Horizonte have taken over social media in Brazil in the last hours.

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Ministry of Health of Brazil raised the risk rating to "imminent danger" after confirming 3 patients suspected of having the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Minas Gerais, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul

Ministry of Health of Brazil raised the risk rating to "imminent danger" after confirming 3 patients suspected of having the coronavirus in Minas Gerais, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul. 

Today, according to the Poder360 website, Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil) has created 1 public health emergency group to conduct actions related to the new coronavirus. The team was created through an ordinance published in the Diário Oficial da União (an official government publication) today.

Today, the Paraná Department of Health has ruled out a suspected coronavirus case in Curitiba. Until yesterday, two patients were admitted to hospitals in the capital of Paraná with the suspicion of having contracted the disease. According to the folder, the patient had influenza of the Influenza B subtype, which was detected in tests.

The second case of coronavirus is still under investigation in Curitiba. It is a 23-year-old woman who is at the Hospital das Clínicas. She traveled to China in the past few days.

According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the three patients under observation who are in Curitiba (Paraná), Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) fit the current definition of suspected cases for nCoV-2019 (the coronavirus) established by WHO (World Health Organization).

Rains kill 50 people in Minas Gerais and leave more than 28 thousand displaced and 4 thousand homeless

According to the newspaper O Tempo, fifty people died in Minas Gerais due to the heavy rains that hit the state last week. Two other people are still missing in the cities of Conselheiro Lafaiete, in the central region of the state, and Luisburgo, in the region of Zona da Mata. According to authorities, the death toll could rise in the coming hours. In all, 28,043 people are displaced in Minas Gerais. Of these, about four thousand are homeless in the region due to heavy rains.

For the general coordinator of Research and Development of the National Center for Monitoring and Natural Disaster Alerts (Cemaden), the meteorologist and climatologist José Mareng, Brazil will increasingly be a "climate of extremes".

For many climate experts, the rise in temperatures on the planet produces extreme phenomena such as the last rains in Minas, which are the most intense in the last 100 years, becoming more and more frequent.

Days before the rains that hit Minas Gerais, the region was hit by a heatwave. In Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state, which was hard hit by the rains, the highest temperature this year was recorded at 34.3ºC.

Brazil confirms of suspected coronavirus case in Minas Gerais

According to UOL, the Brazilian Ministry of Health reported today that it has analyzed more than 7,000 cases of rumors of Brazilians infected with the coronavirus. Of this total, 127 cases needed verification and were sent to Fiocruz. The institution will perform tests to confirm or rule out a coronavirus case in Minas Gerais. Currently, only one case is under suspicion: she is a Brazilian woman who visited China and returned to Minas Gerais. She is isolated and being accompanied by doctors.

The coronavirus (2019-nCoV) started circulating at the end of last year in China and is spreading around the world.

After public pressure government gives up to tax solar energy in Brazil

Aneel (National Electric Energy Agency), the body that regulates the electric power sector in Brazil, wanted to change the current rule, which allows solar energy produced by those who have solar panels at home or in the company to be returned to the grid. Those who do this get discounts on their electric bills.

Therefore, according to the current rules for solar energy generation for own consumption in Brazil, the operation is simple: who produces more energy than it spends throws this surplus in the distribution network and gets the credits. Those who produce less than spend pay the difference to the distributor.

Aneel's proposal, defended by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, has been the target of numerous criticisms. The public pressure was so great that President Jair Bolsonaro, Mayor Rodrigo Maia and Senate President Davi Alcolumbre publicly made a commitment not to change the rules on solar energy production in Brazil.

Aneel argues that those who receive this benefit are receiving subsidies, but, according to journalist Elio Gaspari, there would be subsidy "if the citizen consumed R$100 of kilowatts and only paid R$ 90. In this case, who has solar energy panels paid to distributors to the last penny for the energy it consumes".

The change in rules advocated by Aneel could increase the taxation of those who have solar panels by up to 60%, which for most experts could represent a huge setback for the area.

Brazilian industrial production falls 1.2% in November 2019, according to IBGE

Industrial production in Brazil fell 1.2% in November 2019 compared to October of the same year. This downfall interrupted the upward sequence of the previous three months.

According to IBGE, this is the worst November since 2015, when the industry fell 1.9%, according to the Monthly Industrial Survey, released today (01/09).

There was a reduction in the production of 16 of the 26 surveyed activities. The 1.2% drop eliminates part of the accumulated 2.2% expansion from August to October 2019. With these results, the Brazilian industrial sector is 17.1% below the record level reached in May 2011.

This indicates that many of Brazil's macroeconomic conditions have not changed sufficiently for the current optimism of the government's economic area (Paulo Guedes has even said that the private sector in Brazil could grow by 3% by 2020) and for many economic analysts in the Brazilian media.

In fact, industrial growth in Brazil will be very difficult without strong growth in the rest of the world. Brazil also needs to reverse the country's huge productivity gap.

Brazilian agribusiness fears Iranian retaliation and calls for Brazil's neutrality in US versus Iran conflict

According to the Congress em Foco website, Brazilian agribusiness, the sector that most benefits from Brazil's trade transactions with Iran, which is the second-largest importer of corn, the fifth-largest buyer of soybeans and the sixth-largest beef producer in Brazil. 2019.

This concern is so great that the president of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture, Deputy Alceu Moreira (MDB-RS), defended that Brazil remains neutral to avoid diplomatic problems that could harm business between the two countries.

Brazilian agribusiness has much to lose if the Bolsonaro government maintains automatic alignment with the Trump government.

The note from Itamaraty (Brazil's Foreign Ministry), which said it supported the "fight against the scourge of terrorism" and placed itself with the US in the conflict, drives away a major buyer of Brazilian raw materials.

The State Council of the Environment (Cemam) of the Brazilian state of Goiás approved a motion calling for funds from the Environment Fund not to be sent to the State Treasury

Cemam filed a motion with the governor of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado, concerning the application of resources from the State Environment Fund. The agency argues that the resources of the State Environment Fund accounts are the main source of funding for the control, supervision, recovery, protection, and conservation of the state's environmental conditions. Changing this could further endanger the environment in that region.

Currently, Goiás is going through a severe economic crisis. The governor struggles to balance the bills.

In December 2019, Caiado passed a new Environmental Licensing Law. According to the government, this new norm, according to the Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development (Semad), Andréa Vulcanis, was "historic" because, for her, could put Goiás in broad conditions to become a pole of sustainable development in Brazil.

Now, in January, the same secretary, Andréa Vulcanis, who chairs the State Environment Council, has signed the motion that seeks to protect investments in the environment in Goiás.

#Iranbrazil: Iranian government asks Brazil for explanations of US support note; on twitter, Brazilian population asks Bolsonaro to be silent (#BolsonaroFicaCalado) and declare themselves against the war

According to the newspaper O Globo, Iran's Foreign Ministry asked the Brazilian diplomacy for explanations on Sunday about Brazil's position on the death of General Qassem Soleimani.

Tensions between the United States and Iran worry several world leaders. In Brazil, the population is also concerned, mainly compossible manifestations by the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro (without party), about the foreign impasse. For this reason, the country had Twitter users asking: #BolsonaroFicaCalado (a request for the president to be silent).

Iranian state TV even aired Brazilian messages on Twitter asking them not to be attacked. Brazilian netizens flooded Twitter with requests for Brazil to stay out of a possible conflict between the United States and Iran. There is even a meme with singer Gretchen, who went viral in recent days, which reads: warn that the Brazilian people do not agree with the opinion of the President of the United States."

Diario16: Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) of Brazil is analyzing GetNet's hiring by Santander (SANB4) had practices against the competition

According to the Reserved Report website, the collegiate of advisors to Cade (Administrative Council for Economic Defense) gathers strong evidence that GetNet, the Spanish bank's machine company, used competitor master data to offer its services. had access to someone else's base is still a mystery.

According to the UOL website, Cade questioned Santander about hiring Getnet, the credit and debit card machine company that it owns, as a condition for opening current accounts by merchants. The agency also asked if the bank has already imposed sales targets for customers using GetNet. I also wondered if the card machine has ever required a merchant to have a Santander account to close a contract.

Cade is investigating whether Santander is using information from other accredited companies to offer products to its customers or if it offers discounts on the purchase of bank products. The Brazilian antitrust agency (Cade) also requested the bank information on whether the entity has special policies for those businesses that use only GetNet machines and if they impose fines for those that do not meet the sales objectives.