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The economy is at a crossroads: high unemployment and increasing poverty are generating pressures for greater income transfers, but the delicate fiscal position is generating…
For 2023, the market expects a significant slowdown, with growth of around 0.8%. This presents a highly challenging context for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his finance…
Poorer households' consumption rose markedly under the centre-left governments of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvia (2003-10). Some argue this depoliticised the poor; the new…
Obesity and malnutrition are rising in the region, as slowing growth sees a rise in poverty
Bolsonaro’s popularity gains come despite the impact of COVID-19 and an economy hit hard by the pandemic, a serious wildfire crisis and multiple scandals involving his family and…
BRAZIL: Subsidy splurge will clash with fiscal frailty
Globally, undernutrition remains stubbornly high, even as overnutrition rises: an estimated 800 million people are calorie deficient and around 2 billion experience micronutrient…
Indicators bottomed out after April. Most economists now expect GDP to contract by 5.5-6.0% this year, a severe blow to an economy that had yet fully to recover the ground lost in…
BRAZIL: Renda Brasil plan faces pushback and delays
BRAZIL: COVID-19 prompts social spending plans