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First 100 days of Brazilian COVID-19 Policy

In: The First 100 Days of Covid-19

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  • Tiago Couto Porto

    (Getulio Vargas Foundation of São Paulo)

  • Alexandre San Martim Portes

    (University of Turin)

  • Mariella Pittari

    (University of Turin)

  • João Victor R. Longi

    (Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research MICHR)

Abstract

The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic initiated a globalGlobal cascade of policy responses for the disruptionsDisruption(s) it created. In Brazil, these disruptionsDisruption(s) took place amidst intense economic and politicalPolitical turmoilTurmoil. Since 2015, the Brazilian economyEconomy(ies) had been struggling to recover from the economic crisisEconomic crisis that began during PresidentPresident Dilma's administration and was reinforced by the contested ImpeachmentImpeachment processProcess that put an end to her government in 2016. The crisisCrisis was further aggravatedAggravated by PresidentPresident Temer's politicallyPolitically fragileFragile interim government (2016–2018), which was teeming with corruptionCorruption scandals, and bet on fiscalFiscal economic reforms to circumvent the economic depressionDepression. The politicalPolitical scenario was of utmost polarization, with the massive spread of fakeFake news and institutionalInstitute/institutional/institutions conflictsConflict(s) between the executiveExecutive, the legislativeLegislative, and the judiciaryJudiciary. In this contextContext of political instabilityInstability and considerable rise in inequalityInequality(ies) and povertyPoverty, Brazil electedElected in 2018 the extremeExtreme-right leaderLeaders Jair Messias Bolsonaro to become the presidentPresident of the countryCountries.

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  • Tiago Couto Porto & Alexandre San Martim Portes & Mariella Pittari & João Victor R. Longi, 2023. "First 100 days of Brazilian COVID-19 Policy," Springer Books, in: Aleksandar Stojanović & Luisa Scarcella & Christina R. Mosalagae (ed.), The First 100 Days of Covid-19, pages 399-428, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-6325-4_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6325-4_14
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