Another factor, admittedly, is that real earnings in the manufacturing sector have also gone up sharply over the past few years. You all know that Brazil is not a low-wage country. As a result, domestic goods are increasingly being substituted by imports. The congested infrastructure ranks as a further structural obstacle to macroeconomic development.
The fact that there are said to be roughly as many helicopter taxis in São Paulo as there are helicopters in all of Germany is due, if nothing else, to your city having gained a reputation for being faced with frequent traffic jams. Logistics experts say that deliveries of goods in Brazil take twice as long over the same distance as in China.