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The South American nation has been able to meet a critical Millennium Development Goal.
Inflation had slowed in August to 6.09 per cent, the lowest level of 2013, which also aided the positive sales figures of July.
Rousseff suggested she may cancel her scheduled US trip in October if she receives no satisfactory reply from Obama.
Thirty-eight per cent of those polled said the government was doing a good or very good job.
President Rousseff said the espionage was incompatible with democratic coexistence between friendly countries.
Azevedo revised forecasts saying world trade will grow by 2.5 per cent in 2013 and 4.5 per cent in 2014.
Rousseff says US spying included "strategic factors or to do with commercial and economic factors."
The Brazilian Senate is probing reports that the NSA spied on Rousseff.
The Senate formed an Investigative Parliamentary Commission to investigate alleged US spying on Rousseff.
Brazil's justice minister said US spying on a Brazilian head of state went against ties between the two nations.
