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Dilma’s first term in six charts

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, looks set to triumph at elections later this year, despite the fact that economic growth during her time in office has been weaker than under any president since the early 1990s. If Ms. Rousseff is to oversee a pick-up in growth in her second term, she will need to push through wholesale economic reforms.

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