Analysis: Brazil's middle-class economic miracle at risk
(Reuters) - They were the big winners in Brazil's economic boom: nearly 40 million people who joined the middle class since 2003 and went on a shopping spree, many of them buying televisions, cars or air conditioners for the first time. Yet there are signs that some of these Brazilians -- known here as the "new C Class" -- are in danger of sliding back into poverty...
There are several causes behind the incipient reversal of fortune, including an economy slowing in tandem with the rest of the world, rising inflation and high household debt.
While it inherited the problems, Rousseff's government has struggled to limit the fallout -- and has arguably made some of them worse...
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