Half of that was in agribusiness, in the soy farming town of Barreiras in Bahia state.
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The authorities in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia state, call the microchipped T-shirts "intelligent uniforms".
Brazil's third city Salvador, in Bahia state, northeast Brazil, has some of the strongest links to Africa.
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This image was taken in Cairu, a town in Bahia state that is a bit off the tourist beaten path.
Today is the third day of our focus on Brazil, and it brings us to the city of Salvador, the capital of Bahia state.
But remarkably, Bahia state alone got 54% of this disaster fund.
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"We visit historic bridges and remote sandy islands, " he says, "stop at Bahia Honda State Park for lunch...then a three-mile paddle to the take-out at the historic Old Wooden Bridge fishing camp".
Bahia's state government has declared education its top priority, and plans to lift enrolment rates in primary schools from 80% to 98% by 2002, and in secondary schools from 22% to 40%.
Salvador, Cachoeira (state of Bahia), Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte will host the meetings.
Talks to end a week-long police strike over pay in the Brazilian state of Bahia have ended without agreement.
Later this week Margaret will take us to the village of Cairu and to Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
PFL's leading figure, Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, should be strengthened by his party's strong showing, especially in his home state of Bahia.
Mr Magalhaes had pushed through Congress a measure to offer 700m reais a year in tax credits to Ford to build a new factory in Bahia, his home state.
Some critics note that Mr Magalhaes's sudden concern for the poor dates back to a row last month over the tax breaks and government loans offered to Ford to build a car factory in his home state, Bahia.
More commonly now you just have regular folk going on cultural tourism vacations, and they really discovered the African cultural center of cities like Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, which is famous as being one of the most rich cities in African cultural heritage in the Americas.
The Bahia government says about one third of the 30, 000 state police officers are involved in the industrial action.
Also this month, the government is expected to finish off plans to build three new ports: one in Amazonas state, one in Espirito Santo and the other in Bahia.
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