新数据显示，从某些指标来看，巴西的债务状况处于十年来的最差水平，凸显了最近连任的总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦所面临挑战的严重程度。
New figures showed Brazil’s debt picture is by some measures its worst in a decade, underscoring the scale of the challenge facing recently reelected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
在卢拉的第三个任期内，巴西的债务负担稳步攀升，赤字创下历史新高；他的连任导致巴西市场大跌，反映出投资者担心该国的财政状况在他的任期内只会进一步恶化，因为预计未来几年经济增长将放缓，而新的福利措施——包括缩短工作周以及扩大住房和教育支持——将开始实施。“另一个卢拉政府不太可能推行巴西所需的结构性改革，”一位彭博专栏作家写道。
Brazil’s debt burden steadily climbed over Lula’s third term and the deficit hit a record high; his reelection tanked Brazilian markets, reflecting investors’ fears the country’s fiscal picture will only worsen under his tenure as economic growth is forecast to cool in the years ahead and new benefits — including a reduction in the working week and an expansion of housing and education support — take hold. “Another Lula government is unlikely to deliver the structural reforms Brazil needs,” a Bloomberg columnist argued.
