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How bad is Brazil’s fiscal problem?

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has touched on all the right areas needed to get Brazil’s public debt ratio off its current unsustainable trajectory. In this Focus, we answer five questions in order to get a sense of the scale of the problem and what might happen next.

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