Your answer to question must be based on the text below entitled "Land of Promise":
Land of Promise
Source: www.economist.com/specialreports
April 12th 2007 (Adapted)
In 2003 Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, selected Brazil,
along with Russia, India and China, as one of the "BRICs"- the
developing countries that would share dominance of the world economy by
2050.
In some ways Brazil is the steadiest of the
BRICs. Unlike China and Russia it is a full-blooded democracy; unlike
India it has no serious disputes with its neighbours. It is the only
BRIC without a nuclear bomb. The Heritage Foundation's "Economic Freedom
Index", which measures such factors as protection of property rights
and free trade, ranks Brazil ("moderate free") above the other BRICs
("mostly unfree"). One of the main reasons why Brazil's growth has been
slower than China's and India's is that Brazil is richer and more
urbanized.
The survey will argue that disgruntlement
persists because Brazil is a battleground between progress and inertia.
Since independence was proclaimed by the son of the Portuguese king,
Brazil has been adding layer upon layer of change rather than sweeping
away the old and starting afresh.
In paragraph 2, the author compares Brazil's growth to China's and India's and, therefore, defines it as