Whilst Brasil for some time had, and achieved, a primary fiscal surplus - this is a surplus BEFORE payment of interest on government debt. The ACTUAL budget outcome for the entire period has been deficits, and post 2013 the deficits have reached unsustainable levels, with government debt as a percentage of GDP moving towards 80%.

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