TITLE

Economic Risk: Capital Controls Risks Rising

PUB. DATE

October 2010

SOURCE

Latin America Monitor: Brazil Monitor;Oct2010, Vol. 27 Issue 10, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Country Report

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the increasing risks of capital controls in Brazil, arising from the imposition of a two percent tax on foreign portfolio investment, political pressure to stop the appreciation of the real, and the high proportion of portfolio inflows into the financial account.

ACCESSION #

53549279

Tags: CAPITAL

 

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