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The COVID-19 cost and Brazil’s public debt problem

The cost of the coronavirus will push Brazil’s public debt ratio up sharply this year, to about 90% of GDP, and policymakers will have their work cut out to stabilise the debt trajectory in the following years. One increasingly likely policy response is financial repression to keep borrowing costs low.

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