Obama to Brazil: send us your affluent, money-spending masses
Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute, discusses Brazil's growing growing purchasing power abroad.
Brazil, which as payback requires Americans to obtain visas to visit it, hasn’t met a key, if obscure, criterion for VWP eligibility: that a country’s U.S. tourist-visa application-refusal rate be less than 3%. “But Brazil is edging toward that,” says Paulo Sotero, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute in Washington.
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The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—aims to deepen understanding of Brazil’s complex landscape and strengthen relations between Brazilian and U.S. institutions across all sectors. Our mission is to provide thoughtful leadership and innovative ideas to help democracies evolve and enhance their capacity to deliver results. We achieve this by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, while serving as a hub for policymakers, scholars, and private sector leaders. Read more
