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Promoting access to Brazil's genetic heritage

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Lexology.com

Publication Date
2014-08-18

As the largest country in Latin America and the fifth largest in the world, with a population of around 200 million, it is perhaps not surprising that Brazil has the largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America. The size of this market has also been buoyed during the twenty-first century by a dramatic shift in the economic wellbeing of the population: some 40 million individuals joined the Brazilian middle class between 2003 and 2011, increasing it from 65.9 to 105.5 million, and leading to an increased demand for improved healthcare and consumer products.

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