{"id":275,"date":"2008-07-29T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-07-29T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:23:33","slug":"the-price-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-price-of-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/realestate\/2008\/07\/23\/expensive-cities-unaffordable-forbeslife-cx_mw_0724unaffordable.html\">Forbes<\/a> released a study last week with the top ten increasingly unaffordable cities. Rio de Janeiro came in a #4, and S\u00e3o Paulo came in at #1.<\/p>\n<p>The article explains that economic growth, a strong real, and a high demand for real estate have led to price increases in Brazil&#8217;s major cities. Even though Rio and S\u00e3o Paulo are cheaper than the world&#8217;s most expensive cities, the cost of living is increasing more rapidly. They are, however, the most expensive cities in South America.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a healthy growth rate of 5.4% last year, consumer price inflation was 4.5%, which have increased spending by Brazil&#8217;s wealthiest inhabitants. A credit upgrade to investment grade has caused an influx of foreign investment, and the real has outperformed the dollar, pound, and euro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/07\/24\/expensive-cities-unaffordable-forbeslife-cx_mw_0724unaffordable_slide_11.html?thisSpeed=30000\">Click here<\/a> for an in-depth look at the top ten cities from the article.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes released a study last week with the top ten increasingly unaffordable cities. Rio de Janeiro came in a #4, and S\u00e3o Paulo came in at #1. The article explains that economic growth, a strong real, and a high demand for real estate have led to price increases in Brazil&#8217;s major cities. Even though Rio&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-price-of-growth\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[2217],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-inflation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}