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Brazilian President
18th Most Influential
Person
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Brazilian President
18th Most Influential
Person
Rio de Janeiro - The
latest edition of U.S.
magazine Newsweek ranks
Brazil's President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva
18th on its list of the
world's 50 most
influential people.
U.S. President-elect
Barack Obama was named
the most influential
person.
Chinese President Hu
Jintao ranked second,
followed by his French
counterpart Nicolas
Sarkozy.
The next three on the
list were the so-called
"economic triumvirate":
the Central Bank
Governors of the United
States (Ben Bernanke),
Europe (Jean-Claude
Trichet) and Japan
(Masaaki Shirakawa).
British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown ranked
seventh, followed by
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel.
Lula finished higher
than others such as Pope
Benedict XVI, who ranked
37th, and Osama bin
Laden, who ranked 42nd.
According to Newsweek,
when Lula took over the
presidency in January
2003, Brazil was at the
edge of ruin, the
magazine said. Lula
rules a country with
foreign exchange
reserves of more than
200 billion U.S.
dollars, and an
inflation rate that is
the lowest in the
developing world.
"Thanks to Lula's fiscal
smarts, Brazil is among
the world's healthiest
emerging economies," the
magazine said. |
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