Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap

The Left in power, the Right in control

Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again.” Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his administration: GDP growth exceeded expectations, and the unemployment rate fell ...
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Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap

2018 Brazilian Elections

The end of a crisis or the beginning of another?

The Brazilian presidential election of this year has the potential to scale back the political crisis that the country has been facing for the last 4 years. Alas, it seems that it will also increase the political division of the society even more. Lula’s representative, Fernando Haddad, affiliated with the ...
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2018 Brazilian Elections