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It argues that Brazil faces three core pressures: a large and worsening fiscal disequilibrium since 2012, weak productivity growth undermining future income prospects, and governance weaknesses that limit delivery of essential public services. The overview highlights how persistent inequalities intensify these risks and outlines a reform agenda to restore stability and support shared prosperity.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nFor a fair adjustment with shared growth  \nAn agenda of reforms for Brazil  \nA . A Path to Prosperity for Brazil  \nBrazil will celebrate 200 years of independence by the end of the next Presidential mandate. In many ways, its story for past two centuries is one of tremendous progress: from an extractive, slave dependent Portuguese colony to the world’s 9th largest economy; from an agrarian backwater, where 50 percent of the population was still illiterate in the 1950s, to an urbanized upper middle-income country with an extensive welfare state and vastly expanded access to all types of social services. Yet, these achievements are clouded by Brazil’s inability in the more recent past to achieve sustained economic growth, by remaining deep inequalities, and by recurrent fiscal imbalances, which betray a state besieged by vested interests whose ambition seems to consistently exceed its ability to deliver.  \nThe 2018 general elections in Brazil are probably the most uncertain since the reintroduction of democracy in the mid-1980s. A high proportion of undecided voters, an unusually large field of candidates, together with substantial rejection rates for all leading contenders, reflect a fragmented landscape and the absence of consensus on what Brazil’s national project should be. Already today Congress is made up of over 30 political parties making coalition building enormously challenging. Recent corruption scandals have exposed practices of vote buying and influence peddling at the heart of Brazil’s way of doing politics, practices that the population is no longer willing to tolerate. The challenges awaiting the next administration are thus considerable. To tackle Brazil’s problems, an elected President will require a coherent plan and a strong electoral mandate.  \nThis package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election. It provides the World Bank’s diagnosis of Brazil’s main economic and social development challenges and charts a possible course to address them. The present overview contains a summary of our main arguments. It can be read as a self-standing piece but makes reference throughout to a set of more detailed analyses summarized in a package of 15 policy presentations. The presentations draw and background materials on which they draw can be downloaded from the World Bank’s website ([www.worldbank.org/brazil-policynotes](www.worldbank.org/brazil-policynotes)) .  \nB . Brazil’s Three Core Challenges  \nThe point of departure for our diagnostic is that Brazil faces three core challenges. The first is the large fiscal disequilibrium that has developed since 2012 and that now poses an imminent threat to the resumption of growth and the maintenance of macroeconomic stability. Brazil’s government debt rose from 54 percent to 74 percent of GDP 1 in just five years and is projected to double again in the next decade without a change in policies.  \nThe second challenge is the absence of sustained growth in productivity, which puts future increases in per capita incomes at risk because of a projected reduction in the growth of the country’s labor force. Brazil’s output per worker has risen by just 0.7 percent per year since the mid-1990s, one tenth of the rate in China and only one half of the average in OECD countries.  \nThe third challenge is that Brazil’s state increasingly struggles to deliver basic public services despite its large size. Brazil raises more taxes than the average OECD country. Yet, a growing violence epidemic,  \n1 This is using the Central Bank definition of gross public debt. 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