No Se Mancha’s Cornelius Fleischhaker and Samuel George’s joint editorial Five Steps to Kick-start Brazil in the Financial Times beyondbrics blog.  

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Hey folks, check out Cornelius Fleischhaker and Samuel George‘s new piece for the Financial Times‘ beyondbrics blog entitled “Five Steps to Kick-start Brazil”

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Brazil’s impressive progress means it can no longer stimulate growth by helping families afford a refrigerator—they have one now and do not need another. Brazil’s new middle class needs better jobs, more skills and a dependable economy. By implementing these recommendations the second Rousseff administration could kick-start the process.

Check out the entire piece online here

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A: 1. Fiscal Rebalancing
2. Stabilize the Macroeconomic Foundations
3. Closing the Infrastructure Gap
4. Educating a 21st-Century Workforce
5. Trade and competition

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