12/18/2017, 11:02 AM (updated on 03/13/2023, 4:46 PM) | Estimated reading time: 1 min
One year into Brazil’s 20-year constitutional cap on public spending, the Center for Social and Economic Rights (CESR), the Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos (INESC) and Oxfam Brazil have presented new empirical findings to the Brazilian Congress that illustrate austerity’s already severe impact on basic social and economic rights in the areas of food security, health and education, while exacerbating gender, racial and class inequalities.