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Retail sales grow 3.4% and reach a record in August

Retail trade of fabric, wearing apparel and footwear led rising results in August, with 30.5% - Photo: Cláudio Vieira/PMSJC Retail trade grew 3.4% in August, against the July figure, the fourth month straight increase, after decreases due to the pandemic in March and April. With this result, the sector...

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Sales increase 0.3% in March and trade ends first quarter on the rise

Sales of pharmaceuticals, medical articles and cosmetics pushed the March trade upwards - Photo: Luiz Agner/IBGE Retail sales volume increased 0.3% in March, im comparison with the previous month, after stability of trade in February. As a result, the first quarter closed the year on the rise, with 0.3%...

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Fuels and food products have an impact on October inflation preview

The inflation preview (IPCA-15), released today by the IBGE, rose from 0.09% in September to 0.58% in October. The groups Transportation (1.65%) and food products (0.44%) accounted for the acceleration of the IPCA-15, and accounted for about 70% of the monthly index. The cumulative index reached 3.83%...

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Deceleration of beef prices results in inflation preview of 0.71% in January

Beef prices rose 4.83% and affected the IPCA-15 of January - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15), official inflation preview, was 0.71% in January, after reaching 1.05% in December 2019, as released today (23) by the IBGE. That is the highest...

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São Paulo leads decrease of industrial output in August

The decrease of 0.9% in the industrial output in São Paulo was the main influence towards the decrease of 0.3% in the sector between July and August this year, according to data from the National Survey of Industry – Regional Production (Regional PIM-PF), released today by the IBGE. Against August 2017,...

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Cities as classrooms

Due either to the real estate speculation or to the urban design of the public administration, the pressure of the urban sprawl affects some schools, particularly in terms of the practice of sports, which requires a wide and specific area. This issue takes managers and teachers to look for options adapted...

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Geographic names identify places and let us know about their history

A landscape formed by several geographic features and the names used to identify them - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Streets with uneven paving, made of stones*, and the colonial houses of the historical center of Paraty, a municipality in the south of Rio de Janeiro state, were the background...

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Labor market challenges fuel debate on rights

One of the most important topics of the Federal Constitution which became 30 years old in 2018, the right to quality jobs is addressed in several parts of the Brazilian Charta. The relevance is such that one of the most discussed issues nowadays is the labor reform. Today the challenge is to keep the...

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“Green GDP”: Brazilan environmental heritage to be calculated by IBGE

The IBGE, which is responsible for calculating the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), will also release the Green Gross Internal Product (GGDP), known as the "Green GDP". The bill, which had been being discussed by the Legislative Power since 2015, was sanctioned this week by President Michel Temer. It is...

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Eight in every ten youngsters who never attended school were unemployed in Brazil in 2019

The earlier young people drop out of school, the greater are their chances of being unemployed - Photo: Arquivo Agência Brasil About 82.3% of young people aged 15 to 29 who never attended school were unemployed in 2019, according to the Summary of Social Indicators, released today (12) by the IBGE. The...

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Clean energy impacts GDP of Northeastern municipalities

Wind energy makes energy matrix more sustainable - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency With the increasing participation of wind and solar energies, the Brazilian energy matrix has been becoming even more sustainable. According to the Brazilian Energy Balance 2018 of the Energy Research Office -...

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Inflation speeds up and stands at 0.43% in February

Food products exerted the highest pressure on the national index, but were down in comparison with January - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), which measures official inflation in the country, stood at 0.43% in February, above the 0.32% result of...

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Drop of 16.8% in retail sales in April is the sharpest in 20 years

Isolation measures contributed to the remarkable decrease in sales in April - Rovena Rosal/Agência Brasil Retail sales fell 16.8% in April, compared to the previous month, reflecting the effects of social isolation to control the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the worst result since the beginning of the time...

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Industrial output grows 0.8% in October, third rise in a row

Industry had the best October since 2012, when it grew 1.5% - Photo: Marcelo Benedicto/IBGE News Agency According to the Monthly Industrial Survey, released today (4) by the IBGE, the output of the Brazilian industry grew 0.8% in October compared with the previous month, mainly leveraged by food products...

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Seminar recalls 40 years of IPCA, discusses future of inflation measurement

Francisco de Assis Melo, Cimar Azeredo and Gustavo Vitti discuss, over the Internet, the evolution of inflation measurement. "The IBGE is the house of figures, the house of precision, and so it should be." The brief description – albeit true – of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics´mission...

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International market makes basic metals drive up prices

Leveraged by the international market, Basic Metals was the activity that mostly contributed to the 0.41% increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI) in February, compared to January, as released by the IBGE this Thursday. In relation to the same month of 2017, the change was 5.23%, while the cumulative...

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IPP accelerates, pressed by petroleum derivatives and biofuels

The Producer Price Index - IPP, which measures the price changes in industry free from taxes and freight, accelerated from 0.29% in August to 1.50% in September. This is the highest figure in the survey since October 2015 (1.77%). Released today by the IBGE, the IPP registered a cumulative index of 0.48%...

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Leveraged by agriculture, GDP rises 1.0% in 2017 and reaches R$6.6 trillion

The Gross Domestic Product - GDP rose 1.0% in 2017, reaching R$6.6 trillion. Released today by the IBGE, the data point out that this result was due to the 0.9% expansion of the value added at basic prices – comprising the activities of agriculture, industry and services – and to the 1.3% rise in volume...

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Growth of industry pushed by Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul in September

Mining and quarrying sector contributed to the 2,4% increase of industry in Minas Gerais, the highest figure since January this year- Photo: Pixabay Ten of the 15 areas surveyed by the IBGE recorded positive rates for industrial output and were above the national average of August, having recorded 0.3%...

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Services sector closes February at -0.4% and accumulates second drop in a row

Air transportation of passengers led to sector's decrease - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Having grown 0.8% in December, the service sector fell for the second consecutive time in February (-0.4%), in comparison with January. The result offset the gain at the end of 2018, since January had...