{"id":50630,"date":"2015-03-31T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/public-sector-posts-us-717-million-deficit\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:01:13","slug":"public-sector-posts-us-717-million-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/public-sector-posts-us-717-million-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Public sector posts US$ 717 million deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras&iacute;lia &ndash; The consolidated public sector &ndash; federal, state and county level governments and state-owned companies &ndash; posted a primary deficit of R$ 2.3 billion (US$ 716.9 million) in February. In the same month of 2014, it recorded a surplus of R$ 2.13 billion (US$ 663.9). The deficit comes after a surplus of R$ 21 billion (US$ 6.5 billion) in January that was driven by the states and counties. The data was released this Tuesday (31st) by the Brazilian Central Bank (BC).<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, the public sector is still posting a surplus of R$ 18.763 billion (US$ 5.8 billion) due to the January results. The primary surplus is the saving of resources to pay for interest payments on debt, reducing the government debt on medium and long-term. <\/p>\n<p>The February deficit was driven by the federal government. Last month, the Central Government (Treasury, Central Bank and Social Security) had a negative fiscal result of R$ 6.671 billion (US$ 2.07 billion). The state-owned companies, not including Petrobras e Eletrobras, also posted a deficit of R$ 1.047 billion (US$ 326.3 million). State and county-level governments again posted surplus of R$ 4.653 billion (US$ 1.450 billion) and R$ 547 million (US$ 170.5 million), respectively. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This figure includes government accounts from the federal, state and county levels, and from state-owned companies. The negative result occurred in February, after a surplus in January.<\/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-50630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"This figure includes government accounts from the federal, state and county levels, and from state-owned companies. The negative result occurred in February, after a surplus in January.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50630","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=50630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}