Below is a selection of excellent resources on the Brasilian economy.
Compare economies site - select Australia and Brasil | Gapminder | Trading Economcics Brasil
Read these first - the Australia comparison
- The performance of resource exporting economies, RBA, 2013
- Brazil and the impact of the commodity boom - from page 19 good summary of economic history
- The roots of Brasil's economic crisis
IMF reports
2019 , 2018 Selected issues 2019｜ Selected issues 2017 ｜ 2017 ｜ 2016 ｜ Selected issues 2016 ｜ 2013 ｜ 2012
IMF Working paper on the Bolsa Familia program 2020
IMF country summary of COVID measures for Brasil
OECD ECONOMIC SURVEYS OF BRASIL
2018 summary ｜2018 towards inclusive growth pdf ｜Overview of economic survey 2018 excellent ｜2015
OECD Going for Growth Policy reform recommendations 2017 - search for Brasil
WORLD BANK
Brazil systematric country diagnostic 2016
Covid-19 in Brasil: Impacts and policy responses
Overview of what drove growth
An excellent piece that deconstructs the elements of growth during political terms and isolates the important contribution of population growth.
A good overview of the population and class dynamics operating in the Brazilian economy.
Overview of economic periods and policies
- McKinsey - Brazil's path to inclusive growth 2014
- The role of fiscal and monetary policies in the Brazilian economy: Understanding recent institutional reforms and economic changes 2016
- Macroeconomic Policy, Growth and Income Distribution in the Brazilian Economy in the 2000s, Centre for Economic and Policy Research
- From Lula Growth Spectacle to the Great Recession (2003-2015): Lessons of the management of the macroeconomic tripod and macroeconomic challenges for restoring economic growth in Brazil
- Restructuring the Economic Policy Framework in Brazil: Genuine or Gattopardo change?
- How to ruin an emerging market success story
- 2016 Congressional research service backgrounder on the Brasil economy
- Wilson institute, Brazil’s Insertion in the Global Economy in Challenging Times 2017
- Economist special report 2009 Brasil getting it together at last
- Economist special report from 2013 must read on the micro challenges
- 2016 Special issue report in relation to Brazil development
- How Brasil came undone SMH
- CIA fact book Brasil
- Brazil's Lula: Saint or sinner? BBC 2018
- Brazil: Latin America's limping giant
- Brazil's highs and lows, Washington Post Oct 2018
The demise of Rouseff: intervention and scattergun approach
- The rise and fall of Dilma Rouseff
- Rouseff stimuli policies and government intervention in the economy questioned
- Rouseff price controls fail to stoke Brazil investment - Reuters
- Dilma Rouseff Impeachment is just the first step to heal Brazil's broken economy: Fortune 2016
- Explainer of Rouseff's impeachment
- Good example of investor impact of Rouseff intervention in electricity prices
- Brasil's return to orthodoxy after the election of Rouseff for the second term - Financial Times
Bolsa familia
PAC1 and PAC2
Productivity problems and how to fix the economy now
- OECD labour productivity in brasil
- Accenture Accenture - Brasil's productivity growth
- How to fix the brasilian economy
- Reinventing Brasil - special FT liftout newspaper 2017
- Brasil US Business Council publication 2016
- Excellent emerging economy note update from 2017 from Lazard Asset Management
- Lazard Asset Management provides excellent summary of reform Temer
- EME turbulence and political risks in Mexico and Brasil - Monica de Bolle 2018
- Brazil elections - can a nerw president save the economy Aljazeera
- Country report for Brasil 2018 from Atradius - includes graphic below
Petrobras and Operation car wash
- Understanding the Petrobras scandal
- The true costs of the petrobras scandal
- Lessons from an emerging economy
- Petrobras is Brazil's shame
2020 covid and the future
- Elements for rebuilding a more efficient and resilient economy in Brasil
- The Amazon Is a Carbon Bomb: How Can Brazil and the World Work Together to Avoid Setting It Off?
- Revisiting Growth of Brazilian Economy (1980-2012) - technical but p21 is worth reading
- The rise and fall of the Brazilian economy (2004-2015): the economic antimiracle p 18 and conclusion
- Brazil - much work left to be done, a Deloitte Insights article
- The Monetary and Fiscal History of Brasil 1960-2016 - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Macrobond - tracking the Brazilian economy
- Forbes - in Brasil the Crisis begins again
- Covid-19 in Brasil: Impacts and policy responses
- The road to Bolsonaro’s popularity is paved with payments to Brazil’s poor - FT
- Brazil's economic response to the pandemic - Leaders League also see the excellent summary from KPMG
- IMF country summary of COVID measures for Brasil