Brazil: 2021 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Brazil
IMF Staff Country Reports, September 22, 2021
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Bibliographic details
- Published: September 22, 2021
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513594910.002
Summary
- Economic performance has been much better than expected, in part due to the authorities’ forceful policy response.
- Brazil’s long-standing challenges of low growth, high debt, and elevated levels of poverty and inequality have been exacerbated by the pandemic.
- Tragically, more than 550,000 Brazilians have died from COVID-19.
Key themes and subject coverage
- COVID-19
- Expenditure
- Fiscal policy
- Fiscal stance
- Health
- Inflation
- International organization
- Monetary policy
- Prices
- Public debt
Keywords (as provided)
- Caribbean
- COVID-19
- expenditure ceiling
- Fiscal stance
- Global
- headline inflation
- Inflation
- inflation expectation
- liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident
- money market rate
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