IMF Staff Country Reports

Brazil: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

September 22, 1999

Download PDF

Preview Citation

Format: Chicago

Brazil: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Brazil looks at price developments following the floating of the Real in mid-January 1999. The paper highlights that the experiences in East Asia—Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand—all show that the pass-through from devaluation to inflation has been lower than expected, with the exception of Indonesia. The paper analyzes the competitiveness and export performance of Brazil. Effects of high interest rates and currency depreciation on Brazilian enterprises are also analyzed.

Subject: Banking, Expenditure, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Labor, Monetary policy, Pension spending, Pensions, Prices, Wages

Keywords: Break, Central bank report, Company, CR, Draft FRL, East Asia, Europe, Global, Government, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Inflation targeting framework, Information system, Inspections department, ISCR, North America, Pension spending, Pensions, Price level, Southeast Asia, Wages

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    163

  • Volume:

    ---

  • DOI:

    ---

  • Issue:

    ---

  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/097

  • Stock No:

    1BRAEA0011999

  • ISBN:

    9781451805895

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685