Economics
Brazil’s Budget Foreshadows Another Year of Massive Spending
- Covid spending measures already at BRL123b and rising
- Country grappling with another, more lethal wave of Covid
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Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro enacted a budget that will likely keep growing in size this year, as the government faces competing demands to spend more during the pandemic and to fund lawmakers’ projects in their home states.