Brazil is committed to the aim of sustainable development - development that uses resources to meet today's needs without preventing future generations from meeting their needs. Resources are things that are useful to people. Human resources include skills and the number of workers available. A factory is a good example of a man-made capital resource. But some natural resources, soil and water-power for instance, and of course human resources, are also classed as capital resources.
Brazil has an abundance of most kinds of resources.
Even its reserves of oil and gas, once thought very small, are proving substantial, thanks to successful off-shore exploration. Table shows that in 1993, Brazil was one of the world's largest producers of iron ore. Lu s in Maranh o. Other plans include steelworks, modern farms and new cities. In 1994, Brazil was the eighth largest producer of steel in the world, ahead of such industrial powers as France, the UK and Canada.