This work aims to analyze if the trajectory and composition of net and gross, public debt and external liabilities can hinder the growth of Brazilian GDP. The work concludes that fiscal indicators are more comfortable that external indicators. The net public debt is falling and less linked to...

The use of privatization revenues to reduce the public debt aims to refrain an excessive accumulation of the latter, preventing that fiscal unbalances might push the debt too much, while the government implements the necessary measures to a long-lasting fiscal adjustment. The timing is...