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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2023
Introduction
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil continues to pursue a busy agenda of reform and recovery across various policy areas, including economic, environmental, and foreign policy.... Read More
Brazil
Following a rocky start to his third term [EB-23-01], Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made considerable progress in defusing budgetary timebombs and pushing his legislative reform agenda, thereby improving the outlook for Latin America’s largest economy.... Read More
For decades one government after another has tried to overhaul Brazil’s unwieldy tax system to no avail.... Read More
Deforestation in the Amazon biome decreased by 33.6% in the first half of 2023 compared with the same period in 2022, according to data from Brazil’s national space research institute (Inpe) released on 6 July.... Read More
Paraguay
Santiago Peña takes over as president of Paraguay on 15 August.... Read More
Uruguay
Amid the country’s most severe drought in the last four decades, Uruguay’s government led by President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou declared a state of emergency in the capital Montevideo on 19 June.... Read More
Argentina
It isn’t often that Argentine authorities get to announce positive economic news.... Read More
Region
It’s been about a quarter of a century since the European Union (EU) and the South American trade bloc Mercosur first started exploring the possibilities of a trade agreement, but every time it looked like it was a done deal, it wasn’t.... Read More
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- Introduction
- Lula’s two-pronged economic strategy
- Decades-long tax reform in sight
- Enduring challenges for anti-deforestation goals
- Foreign policy shift unlikely under Peña
- Slow government response to water crisis
- Massa bets on gas, IMF deal for election boost
- Mercosur-EU deal hangs in the balance
- Economic Highlights