Brasília – The consolidated public sector, formed by the federal, states and municipal governments, registered a public accounts deficit in March, according to data from the Brazilian Central Bank (BC) released this Monday (30) in Brasília.
The primary deficit – revenues minus expenditures before interest rates payments – stood at BRL 25.135 billion (USD 7.36 billion). In the same month of 2017, the deficit was of BRL 11.047 billion (USD 3.24 billion).
Last month’s result was the worst for a March in the BC’s historical series that began in December 2011.
Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
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