The structural shift that is occurring there is based on consumer spending increases.

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But some economists argue that Brazil is the beneficiary of a structural shift, in which the industrialisation of Asia and the rise of a new middle class in the developing world will keep commodity prices high.

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The Great Recession has unveiled that the U.S. economy has gone through another structural shift.

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The country that was once the cheap factory labor mill of the planet continues to go through a major structural shift in its economy.

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