Economy
The city is now considered one of the most important sights of Brazil, receiving tourists from the center-south of the country and countries like Argentina, Portugal, the United States, Israel and France . The place also has one or two dozen luxury hotels and hundreds of smaller hotels, but good quality and with an international airport capable of landing aircraft of similar size to the Boeing 767 and Airbus A310 . Apart from tourism, other important activities are agriculture (especially the cashew apple, the coconut ), the reforestation with eucalyptus trees, the cattle, the trade and services.
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Famous quotes containing the word economy:
“War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely geared to war ... but there is not much war ... hardly any fighting ... yet every man a soldier from birth till death ... Men ... all men for fighting ... but no war, no wars to fight ... what is it, what does it mean?””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)