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Article

23 Feb 2011

Author:
David Lewis, Reuters

Special Report: In Africa, can Brazil be the anti-China?

At building sites from Angola to Zambia, teams of Chinese workers often do the work instead of Africans. Where locals are employed, their rough treatment by Chinese managers has stirred bitterness...That growing resentment is one reason why Brazilian engineering group Odebrecht, contracted to get Liberia's railway rolling again, made a conscious decision to employ locals for the job -- and treated them well…Odebrecht's decision to employ people who live along the track is clearly popular..."For Brazilian companies to compete with Chinese companies, it is necessary for them to offer more transfer of technology and more local employment," says Renato Flores, an analyst at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, a Brazilian think-tank [also refers to ArcelorMittal, Collum Coal Mining, Petrobras, Vale]