Crisis that began during the presidency of Dilma Rousseff
January 2016 cover of The Economist magazine about the crisis. The cover depicts then-president Dilma Rousseff.
From mid-2014 onward, Brazil experienced a severe economic crisis.[1][2] The country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by 3.5% in 2015 and 3.3% in 2016, after which a small economic recovery began. That recovery continued until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact the economy again.
The economic crisis occurred alongside a political crisis that resulted in the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff. These events combined caused mass popular dissatisfaction with the political system.
The cause of the crisis was the aforementioned political crisis, as well as the 2014 commodity price shock, which negatively affected Brazil's exports and reduced the entrance of foreign capital into the economy. However, the most important cause was internal, which is associated with economic measures that didn't achieve the expected results. Adopted in 2011, these measures are known as the nova matriz econômica [pt] ("new economic matrix", in a free translation).
During the economic crisis, high unemployment rates were reported throughout the country, and there was widespread uncertainty regarding Brazil's economic future following a series of political scandals.[3] In the first quarter of 2017, Brazil's GDP rose by 1%. This was the first GDP increase to occur in eight consecutive quarters. Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles announced that Brazil had "emerged from the greatest crisis of the century".[4] However, the rise in GDP marked only the end of a technical recession, not the end of the crisis. The recession was the second most severe in the country's history,[5][6][7] and was followed by the slowest recovery.[7]
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^Barua, Akrur (29 April 2016). "Brazil: Yearning for the good times". Global Economic Outlook, Q2 2016. Deloitte University Press. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
^Darlan Alvarenga (2017-06-01). "PIB positivo é 'saída técnica' da recessão, mas recuperação é incerta; entenda". G1. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
^Mu Xuequan (March 8, 2017). "Brazil GDP falls by 3.6 percent in 2016".
^Vinicius Neder (1 December 2018). "Com revisão, última recessão deixa de ser a maior da história". Estadão. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
^Gabriel Martins (30 May 2019). "Estagnação, recessão ou depressão? PIB confirma retomada mais fraca das últimas décadas". O Globo. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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