The announcement of a new economic team in Brazil – and the nomination of Joaquim Levy as Finance Minister in particular – will strengthen hopes for a return to more orthodox policies during President Rousseff’s second term in office. But while fiscal and monetary policy areboth likely to be tightened over the coming quarters, we suspect that the new team will struggle to advance much-needed reforms to the supply side of Brazil’s economy.
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