Go to the World Bank website at www.worldbank.org and find the amount of bank loans currently outstanding in Brazil using the following steps. Click on “Research.” Under “Key Statistics,” click on “Online Data Bases.” Click on

“GO.” Click on “Quarterly External Debt Statistics/SDDS” and “Next >>.”

In the “Country” tab, click on “Brazil” and then “Select.” In the “Series” tab, click on “027_T1_Banks” and then “Select.” In the “Time” tab, click on the most recent year end quarter, i.e., “20XXQ4,” and then “Select.” Click on

“Next >>.” Click on “View Data.” This will bring the file onto your computer that contains the relevant data.