BRASÍLIA: Brazil announced a $64-billion infrastructure spending package on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), hoping to revive its flagging economy with investment in highways, railroads, ports and airports.

Businesses and analysts have long pointed to overburdened infrastructure as a drag on the world’s seventh-largest economy, which pays high prices to ship the raw materials it exports.

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