A series of bottlenecks in the Brazilian economy, including power shortages and lack of skilled labor, is pushing prices of local commodities upward by nearly 6 percent, the Wall Street Journal says. These bottlenecks are the result of low public investment during the years of economic stagnation in the country, the newspaper says. Economists have downgraded their growth forecasts for 2011 because of these bottlenecks.
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