* Brazil’s President
Jair Bolsonaro has approved a new increase in the minimum wage, following
higher-than-expected inflation in 2019. Bolsonaro and his economy minister,
Paulo Guedes, have announced that the minimum wage will be set at R$1,045 (US$252.83) from 1 February, a R$6 increase on the R$1,039 minimum wage announced on 31 December 2019 (which Bolsonaro had raised from the R$1,031 set in the 2020 national budget). Guedes stressed that this increase aims to maintain the purchasing power of minimum wage earners, and assured that the R$2.3bn expected impact on the government’s budget will be compensated for through other sources of revenue.
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