{"id":42717,"date":"2012-09-28T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazils-primary-surplus-at-r-2-9-bn\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:17:50","slug":"brazils-primary-surplus-at-r-2-9-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-primary-surplus-at-r-2-9-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s primary surplus at R$ 2.9 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Brazilian consolidated public sector primary surplus \u2013 i.e. the combined surpluses of the federal, state and municipal governments and government-owned companies \u2013 reached R$ 2.997 billion in August, according to figures released today (28th) by the Central Bank. The surplus last month was lower than in August 2011 (R$ 4.561 billion).<\/p>\n<p> Year-to-date as of August, the primary surplus was R$ 74.225 billion, also down from the same period in 2011 (R$ 96.54 billion). In the 12-month period ended August, the surplus was R$ 106.395 billion, a figure equivalent to 2.46% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) \u2013 which is the sum of all wealth produced in the country. The target for this year is R$ 139.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p> The primary surplus has fallen short from matching the interest due on the outstanding debt. Said interest stood at R$ 19.118 billion in August and a combined R$ 147.58 billion year-to-date, as against R$ 21.663 billion and R$ 160.207 billion, respectively, in the equivalent periods of 2011.<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The figure recorded in August was significantly down from the R$ 4.5 billion surplus in August 2011, according to the Brazilian Central Bank.<\/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-42717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The figure recorded in August was significantly down from the R$ 4.5 billion surplus in August 2011, according to the Brazilian Central Bank.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717","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=42717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}