Brazil: could a savings drawdown lift the recovery?

We estimate that Brazilian households have ‘excess’ savings worth around 6% of GDP resulting from the pandemic. These should help to cushion consumer spending in the face of headwinds caused by rising inflation and unwinding fiscal support, but we think it’s unlikely that there will be a rapid drawdown of savings that would turbocharge the recovery.

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