{"id":41081,"date":"2012-03-30T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazil-posts-highest-ever-primary-surplus\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:21:17","slug":"brazil-posts-highest-ever-primary-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-posts-highest-ever-primary-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil posts highest ever primary surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The consolidated public sector (federal government, states\u2019 and municipalities\u2019 governments, and state-owned companies) posted a primary surplus \u2013 that is, revenues minus expenses and debt interest \u2013 of 9.514 billion reals (US$ 5.199 billion) in February this year. It is the highest ever for the month of February since the Central Bank started keeping track of the results, in 2001.<\/p>\n<p> In spite of the result, the governments\u2019 fiscal efforts did not suffice to cover expenses pertaining to nominal interest on government debt. Interest payments stood at 18.269 billion reals (US$ 9.984 billion). The resulting nominal deficit was 8.755 billion reals (US$ 4.784 billion).<\/p>\n<p> In February, the so-called Central Government (National Treasury and Social Security) posted a primary surplus of 5.317 billion reals (US$ 2.905). The governments of states and municipalities posted a combined primary surplus of 5.070 billion reals (US$ 2,770 billion). State-owned companies, Petrobras and Eletrobras not included, posted a deficit 872 million reals (US$ 476.5 million).<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public sector had a primary surplus of US$ 5.1 billion in February. It is the highest ever result for the month since the Central Bank started keeping track of results, in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-41081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The public sector had a primary surplus of US$ 5.1 billion in February. It is the highest ever result for the month since the Central Bank started keeping track of results, in 2001.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081","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=41081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}