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Brazil’s Central Bank advocates fiscal austerity notwithstanding pandemic

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - "We have reached a moment, today, of confronting the pandemic, in which it is necessary to send a message of austerity and fiscal seriousness", said Campos Neto, at the I Ibero-American Conference of Central Banks, organized by the Bank of Spain and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib).

The economist emphasized that Brazil's space for fiscal spending is "very small" at present, making it "very difficult" to have the same capacity to formulate policies to sustain the crisis generated by Covid-19 as developed countries.

The Brazilian government made an enormous outlay last year . . .

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