
Maria Aparcida enters her identification number as she uses a credit card to pay for her purchases at a Sao Paulo, Brazil, supermarket on Thursday, July 24, 2003. Brazil's biggest interest-rate reduction in four years will do little to spur demand that has been throttled by high consumer borrowing rates, said an economist at the Brazilian Association of Commercial Banks. Photographer: Jean Pierre Pingoud/Bloomberg News
JEAN PIERRE PINGOUD