It’s still too soon to say how next year’s presidential elections in Brazil will pan out, but it’s not impossible to see how voters might return an economic populist to the Planalto. If so, there are good reasons to think that the economic and market fallout in Brazil would be less benign than in other EMs that have experienced a tilt towards populism in recent years.
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