If it were a country it would have the ninth-largest economy in the world, behind Spain, which has a gross domestic product of $553 billion.

But now, Brazil, the ninth-largest economy in the world, is reeling.

Brazil, the ninth-largest economy, flirts with its own financial crisis.

With 160 million people, Brazil represents the world's ninth-largest economy and is the financial engine of Latin America.

But as the world's ninth-largest economy, Brazil does not take kindly to being lumped with Guatemala.

Since 1996, Brazil has received $81 billion in direct investment from abroad, as foreign concerns took notice of the potential of the world's ninth-largest economy.

Taiwan is the ninth-largest economy in the world and competes as an equal with Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Singapore.

Jetting between his homes in New York and Rio, Mr. Gros became a fixture on network television here, discussing the direction of the world's ninth-largest economy.

It has the ninth-largest economy in the world, one that grew 7 to 10 percent a year in the 1960's and 70's and was considered an economic miracle.

Brazil, the world's ninth-largest economy and the pacesetter for Latin America, is once again in danger of collapse, this time crippled by growing current account and fiscal deficits.