Brazil won’t return to growth until at least 2018 after two years of recession and one of stagnation, marking the first time in over a century that Latin America’s largest economy fails to expand for that long, the International Monetary Fund said.
The IMF cut Brazil’s 2017 economic forecast to stagnation from 2.3 percent growth as it updated its World Economic Outlook, last published in October. Gross domestic product will shrink 3.5 percent this year after contracting 3.8 percent in 2015, it said Tuesday. That would be the first time since 1901 that Brazil has back-to-back recessions deeper than 3 percent, according to data from the government’s economic research institute, known as IPEA.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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