A New Way Forward for Brazil’s Economy

Part of a continuing series on how Latin America can overcome a decade of slow economic growth.
Economic analysts, myself included, once thought that Brazil could reach a per capita income equal to Spain or Portugal by the early 2020s. Instead, the 2010s seem destined to go down as a lost decade for Brazil in many of the ways that matter most: productivity, living standards, health, education, and fairness.
By Thomas J. Trebat