I recently returned from Brazil, the world’s sixth largest economy, where President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist revolutionary, is using pro-growth incentives such as lower interest rates, proposed tax cuts and infrastructure investment to fuel her nation’s quest for sustained economic growth and help more Brazilians stand on their own two feet. That Rio will host the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in March 2013 is obviously important for Brazilians. It might be more important for the rest of world.
Most are familiar by now with Brazil’s success with winning bids for the soccer World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016. You are probably not aware though of another global gathering earlier on the time horizon – namely that Rio won the bid to host the next Global Entrepreneurship Congress in March 2013 – a 125 nation brainstorm about how to wash away barriers to entrepreneurship and solidify the current wave of vibrant, informal networks of nascent entrepreneurs that are powering a new wave of startups around the world. Why you might ask in the scheme of things would that matter?
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