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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 31 March 2020
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On 30 March, a group of opposition political parties and politicians in Brazil issued a call for President Jair Bolsonaro to resign over his incapacity to handle the public health emergency and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
* Market analysts surveyed weekly by Brazil’s central bank (BCB) for its Focus bulletin now expect that the country’s GDP will contract by 0.48% in 2020.... Read More
On 30 March the Paraguayan government announced the establishment of a national dialogue table to discuss a structural reform of the state, as part of the efforts to address the economic impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
* According to the latest bulletin by a local think-tank Corporación de Investigación, Estudio y Desarrollo de la Seguridad Social (Ciedess), in March 2020, three of Chile’s five leading pension funds recorded contractions that exceed those seen during the peak of the 2008 financial crisis.... Read More
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