Five histories to understand Brazil | Renato Meirelles | TEDxLaçador 

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Renato Meirelles talks about inequalities that persist in Brazil, especially the inequality of opportunities. He shows us the need to understand and respect each one's history and, through five short histories, he manages to illustrate differences and conflicts between the Brazilian traditional middle class and the new one.
Renato Meirelles is president of Data Popular, a pioneer research institute about Brazilian C, D and E economic classes. He is an expert in emergent markets in Brazil, collaborated in the book "Retail for the Low Income", published by Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and he is the author of "Guide to Face New Situations Without Fear" and "A country called Slum". In 2012, he was part of the committee that studied the New Middle Class, in the Secretary of Strategic Matters of the Presidency. In Data Popular, he has conducted more than 300 studies about the Brazilian emergent consumer.