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“Brazil: land of the future” is the title of a 1941 classic book by Stefan Zweig. Ithe title became a popular saying: Brazil is the land of the future. Every Brazilian has heard it and, until 2000, it was a customary joke to say that “future would never come”.
However, in the last decade, the future seemed to have arrived. Brazil was no longer part of the FAO Hunger Map. Among the most populous countries in the world, Brazil had the highest decrease of undernourished people from 2002 to 2014: 82 per cent. At that same period, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, unemployment was reduced to the praiseworthy rate of 4.9 per cent, and the minimum wage raised 75 per cent.
