The Brazilian economy should fare better in the second half of this year, but we doubt that any rebound will be as brisk as policymakers expect. Indeed, with supply constraints holding back growth, we are sticking to our below-consensus forecast for GDP to expand by 1.7% this year and 3.5% in 2013.
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