Brazil overtakes UK as sixth-largest economy

Brazil has overtaken the UK to become the world’s sixth-largest economy, according to a team of economists. The banking crash of 2008 and the subsequent recession has relegated the UK to seventh place in 2011, behind South America’s largest economy, which has boomed on the back of exports to China and the far east.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/26/brazil-overtakes-uk-economy

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