As Dilma Rousseff steps aside from Brazil’s presidency and Michel Temer ascends to the post, it’s a moment of reckoning for a nation that’s in the throes of recession, high inflation and a near-record budget deficit.
The charts below detail the road that led Brazil into its economic predicament — and show that Temer’s administration would have to oversee a major comeback for Brazil to recapture its former prosperity.
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