Monday, May 9, 2011

Brazil's Rousseff: 'We rank seven in the world’s economy thanks to our efforts'

The Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said today that Brazil is the seventh economy in the World and announced that the government is to finance scholarships abroad. “We are the world’s seventh economy and this is due to the effort and sweat of those who made this country grows,” she claimed.

“We need a qualified working force in order to keep pace with our new cycle of development, with the qualification and education of our workers we will build a richer and dignified nation free of poverty,” Rousseff said as she promised to build over 200 new schools.

During her standard radio announcement she stated that “there wasn’t a single advanced country in terms of science and technology in the world that hasn’t sent its citizens to study abroad. We have over five thousand Brazilian students on government scholarships.”

“We want to press forward our goals and give over 75 thousand new scholarships until 2014,” said Rousseff who returns to the Planalto after being working at the official residence due to pneumonia.