Tighter fiscal policy is still the key for Brazil

Contrary to claims by some commentators, we think that tighter fiscal policy has a key role to play in ensuring that Brazil meets its current inflation/inflows challenge. Indeed, we would go as far to say that, absent of a drop in commodity prices, tighter fiscal policy will be crucial to ensuring that Brazil’s economy does not start to overheat within the next two or three years.

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