If it were a country it would have the ninth-largest economy in the world, behind Spain, which has a gross domestic product of $553 billion.
But now, Brazil, the ninth-largest economy in the world, is reeling.
Brazil, the ninth-largest economy, flirts with its own financial crisis.
With 160 million people, Brazil represents the world's ninth-largest economy and is the financial engine of Latin America.
But as the world's ninth-largest economy, Brazil does not take kindly to being lumped with Guatemala.
Since 1996, Brazil has received $81 billion in direct investment from abroad, as foreign concerns took notice of the potential of the world's ninth-largest economy.
Taiwan is the ninth-largest economy in the world and competes as an equal with Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Singapore.
Jetting between his homes in New York and Rio, Mr. Gros became a fixture on network television here, discussing the direction of the world's ninth-largest economy.
It has the ninth-largest economy in the world, one that grew 7 to 10 percent a year in the 1960's and 70's and was considered an economic miracle.
Brazil, the world's ninth-largest economy and the pacesetter for Latin America, is once again in danger of collapse, this time crippled by growing current account and fiscal deficits.
