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The assistance I need is a list of macro economic problems faced by Brazil over the past decade.

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Brazil faces a dilemma because even moderate growth leads to substantial increase in demand for imports. This results in the need for devaluation of the real exchange rate to avoid a deterioration of the trade balance.
For more on this, see "Growth, exchange rates and trade in Brazil: a structuralist post-Keynesian approach" by Nelson H. Barbosa Filho (http://www.face.ufmg.br/novaeconomia/sumarios/v14n2/140203.pdf).

This situation has resulted in the following macroeconomic problems for Brazil over the last decade:
1. Erratic foreign exchange markets:
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