Economy

Brazilian economy in 2020: expectation v. reality

At the end of 2019, the mood in Brazil was one of cautious optimism. In the wake of the approval of a sweeping pension reform, the expectation was that the country had what it takes to approve other structural issues, such as simplifying Brazil’s Byzantine tax code, approving a new regulatory framework for...

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