RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - After losing his job with a foreign food company in March, Alexander Costa surveyed Brazil's anaemic labour market and decided to start selling cheap lunches by the beach in Rio de Janeiro to try and provide for his young family.
"I could have stayed home, looking for work, sending out resumes, with few jobs and things very hard," Costa said. "But I didn't stand still. I decided to create something different ... to reinvent myself."
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