Brazil’s National Broad Consumer Price Index, or IPCA, which gauges the country’s official inflation, was reported at 0.21 percent in January this year.
Launched on February 27, 1994, during the administration of Itamar Franco (1992-1994), the Plano Real (“Real Plan”) was a major economic stabilization program aimed at controlling the hyperinflation that was damaging the country.
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