From the August 2016 issue

Brazil: the trapped country

Brazil was booming when it won the right to host the Olympics. But as the Games begin it is suffering its worst economic crisis in living memory. What went wrong?

By George Magnus

July 13, 2016

{
  "id": "e0rZyAYGJa",
  "parentBlockId": "eZoGS8noTI",
  "parentTemplateId": 128,
  "widgetTypeId": 200,
  "label": "Article Body",
  "baseLayoutCssClass": "gc-col-12",
  "cssClass": "pros-article-body",
  "position": 0,
  "visible": true,
  "additionalItems": {
    "width": 100,
    "tagName": "div",
    "widthUnit": "%",
    "customStyles": ""
  },
  "configuration": {}
}

George Magnus is author of the “Age of Ageing” and an associate of the China Institute at the University of Oxford and the former chief economist at UBS

World