Brazil emerges from recession as GDP grows 1%

Brazil’s economy has grown 1% in the first three months of 2017, putting an end to the country’s longest recession in history, officials have announced.

• BBC

The GDP increase came after two consecutive years of negative growth, during which the Brazilian economy shrank by almost 8%.

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