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Expert briefing
Publication date: 7 January 2015

According to Central Bank estimates, a trade deficit of this magnitude increases the current account deficit to around 4% of GDP, the highest in 13 years, and the third-largest…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 29 August 2018

Candidates' economic policy proposals.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 3 July 2015

President Dilma Rousseff is seeking economic reforms and fiscal adjustment to increase Brazil's international competitiveness, focussing on improving infrastructure, human capital…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 November 2017

PROSPECTS 2018: Global economy

Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 January 2019

Gold outperformed other asset classes, including US equities, last year for the first time since 2011. However, this was due more to gold's relatively low volatility than to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 December 2020

Europe and the United States may slip back into recession in the northern hemisphere winter. If vaccination succeeds, the advanced economies will recover robustly from mid-2021…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 December 2018

The 2018 currency crisis left the economy in one of the deepest downturns of the last decade, repeating the cyclical pattern in place since 2011 of one year of growth followed by…

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