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On Lula's watch, as well as winning the right to host the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 World Cup, Brazil's economy boomed.
CNN: Soccer stars return to booming Brazil
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Lord Triesman, who is the bid chairman, stressed the impact a World Cup would have on the population and the economy.
BBC: 2018 bid chief calls for humility
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Today, according to the Economist, Ethiopia is the fifth fastest growing economy in the planet in the year of the African World Cup.
BBC: Bob Geldof denies that any Band Aid money funded arms
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The 62-year-old will lead the largest economy in Latin America as it prepares for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, according to additional Forbes coverage.
FORBES: Brazil Elects First Female President Dilma Rousseff
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Among other things, the sporting goods market should expand this year amid a healthier economy, less discounting and industry specific events like the World Cup, wrote HSBC in a report in late March.
FORBES: Luxury Goods: Nice Play On A Plummeting Euro
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This plays well with a population that has fond memories of the first half of the century, when the country's cattle and sheep almost made Uruguay an economy to be reckoned with and the national football team twice won the World Cup.
ECONOMIST: Uruguay
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South Africa, who lost the right to host the 2006 World Cup by just one vote, boasts more than the eight stadiums required by Fifa and Africa's best economy and telecommunications.
BBC: SPORT | Football | African | Fifa team wraps up SA visit
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The German State Ministry of Economy and Women in Berlin said there were 33 cases of trafficking at the time of the World Cup but only five were directly related to the tournament.
CNN: Sex and Soccer: The World Cup vice trade