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The economic impact of World Cup 2014

The 2014 Football World Cup, which gets underway next month in Brazil, is unlikely to provide much of a boost to the country’s flagging economy in the short term – and it certainly won’t do anything to address the structural problems that are weighing on the longer-term outlook for growth.

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