No, I'm not. I'm serious. Since you throwed in Brazil in a one sided comparison, I had to set in a more thorough perspective. Japan may never rise to the stuff they have aspired to (since Hideyoshi), exactly because of its physical condition. Contrary to Chile, Brazil has a well developed industrial sector and technology of its own. Chile is largely still dependent on copper. Brazil is home to the 3rd/4th largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, f.e.
The industrial sector of Brazil is one of the most developed and sophisticated in the world, ok?
This is just one indicator, an important one (I could add many more), of how industrial Brazil has become (one of the top ten steel manufacturers in the world):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...eel_production
Steel production in Latin America:
Industry accounts for
27,4% of our GDP (agriculture only 5.4%). By comparison, industry accounts for
27,5% of the Japanese GDP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...or_composition
In addition, Brazil is one of the top 10 ten countries by
industrial output, the 6th in the world world (in Asia only China and Japan area ahead of Brazil, not even India, or the Asian tigers surpass us):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry
Out of the top 20 manufacturers in the world, only Brazil, Mexico and Argentina appear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufac...ent_known_Data
The Bahamas have a higher GDP PPP
per capita than Chile. Being a continental country, with a difficult history as ours, it is more difficult to get a higher HDI. Still we're on par with major countries like Russia, above China, India and Indonesia, other major countries.
Bahamas
Chile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile
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