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Brazil: where did it all go wrong?

Brazil’s economic vulnerabilities have been brought into sharper focus in recent weeks after (yet another) slump in local financial markets. In this Focus we revisit key aspects of our research over the past few years to explain where it all went wrong for Brazil – and that while the near-term outlook is pretty grim, there are one or two glimmers of hope on the horizon.

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