{"id":160441,"date":"2018-04-19T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=160441"},"modified":"2018-04-20T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T19:34:43","slug":"brazil-must-follow-reforms-imf-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-must-follow-reforms-imf-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil must follow through with reforms: IMF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsHeader\">\n<p>Washington, DC \u2013 International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde (pictured above) said this Thursday (19) that Brazil is back on track to growth, but needs to push through with economic reforms. According to her, this growth \u201cis probably attributable to some of the key reforms which have been undertaken, not all yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lagarde said that in light of Brazil\u2019s debt burden, \u201cit is time to actually do this intelligent fiscal consolidation, gradual over time and growth-friendly, so that while continuing to encourage this growth process.\u201d On the fiscal reforms underway in Brazil, she said caution regarding public spending and tax collection is a \u201csubtle exercise\u201d for all ministers of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (17), the IMF changed up its growth forecasts for Brazil to 2.3% in 2018 and 2.5% in 2019. The forecasts are up 0.4 percentage points from the last report, which had been issued in January. According to the Fund, numbers were fueled by a hike in investment and private consumption in Brazil. In its World Economic Outlook report, the IMF advises Brazil to follow through with a Social Security reform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde also said the country needs a smart, gradual fiscal consolidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":160437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde also said the country needs a smart, gradual fiscal consolidation. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}