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Brazil has weathered the financial crisis better than most big countries but has it really changed from the old underperforming economy?

Steve Evans reports from Sao Paulo. He meets a Lebanese immigrant who's set up his own company and who thinks Brazil is the future.

And he interviews Roger Agnelli, Chief Executive of Vale, one of the world's giant mining companies, as well as Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Governor of the Central Bank. And he investigates the air taxi business where $300 gets you to work faster by helicopter over the automobile gridlock below.

Brazil always seems to have been the country of the future but has that prosperous future now finally arrived.