Aggregate demand and the slowdown of Brazilian economic growth in 2011-2014

Autor: Franklin Serrano, Ricardo Summa
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nova Economia, Vol 25, Iss Esp (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0103-6351
Popis: This paper looks in detail at the sharp slowdown in the Brazilian economy for the years 2011-2014. We argue that the slowdown is overwhelmingly the result of a sharp decline in domestic demand, rather than a fall in exports and even less any change in external financial conditions. The sharp fall in domestic demand, in turn, is shown to be a result of deliberate policy decisions made by the government and was not necessary, i.e., it was not made in response to some external constraint such as a balance-of-payments problem.
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