News of recession

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Brazil faces recession risk after economy shrinks in first quarter

31-05-2019 07:39 Latin America's biggest economy on brink of recession once again, new data confirms.

POVERTY & INEQUALITY

Brazil's poor are squeezed as inequality grows

28-05-2019 13:50 Study released this month by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation found that the key measure of income inequality has reached its highest level since the series began seven years ago, with Brazil among the most unequal nations in a broader region where the gap between rich and poor is notorious.

AS I SEE IT

Dreaming of a quick fix

15-09-2018 12:48 If Cristina’s cronies really did bury containers stuffed with paper money in remote Patagonian farmsteads, they will have been full of dollars, euros, Swiss francs, pounds sterling, yuans and yens, not pesos.

AS IMF VISITS

Soy exporters suffer brunt of US$2.25b austerity package

18-08-2018 09:51 The government hopes to save 65.5 billion pesos in the next 16 months by freezing planned tax cuts on soy byproducts for six months and winding back export duty rebates.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Recession looms as INDEC registers sharp fall in economic activity

28-07-2018 09:54 Economic activity in May contracted 5.8% year-on-year, led by 35% drop in farming activity.

ECONOMIC QUESTIONS

Changing scenario – or staged?

26-05-2018 09:46 Now that an overvalued peso has been abandoned as an anchor against inflation, the next most effective tool in Argentine experience has been recession.

by Michael Soltys