Brazil’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 1.1 percent this year and 2.3 percent in 2020, as per forecasts by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), released in Rio de Janeiro today (Dec. 19).
Brazil’s homicide rate increased 4.2 percent from 2016 to 2017, settting a new record with 31.6 deaths in every 100 thousand people, as per figures from the Violence Atlas 2019, released today (Jun 5) by the government’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the B
President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro’s economic staff has unveiled the names to head the country’s two main public banks—Banco do Brasil and Caixa Econômica Federal—and the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), according to a source in Bolsonaro’s transition team.
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