A combination of modest austerity, elevated inflation and increasing financial repression should keep Brazil’s high and rising public debt burden from becoming a major economic headache over the next couple of years. But whichever government emerges from the next elections (most likely in 2018) will face tough choices on the public finances – and a failure to act could ultimately precipitate a new crisis in Brazil.
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