Thread by @RodZeidan

A thread about the Lost Decade in Brazil, only with numbers. Truly the culmination of the worst brought by the Labors Party (PT), MDB, and semi-fascist PSL. We start with GDP per person. It was, in today's money, R$31,614. Now? (1/n)
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R$31,836 (0,07% yoy)

We are comparing start 2010 with 2019. People are literally as rich today as before. Maybe employment data are better? Hell no, unemployment started 2010 at 8.1% and ended 2019 at 11.2%. No more money and lower employment. Maybe inequality got better? (2/n)

Nope. Inequality is as bad as ever. Gini has changed very little, if at all, if we compare early 2010 with late 2010s. The Human Development Index did improve a tiny bit. So Brasil is the best definition of a decrepit economy. (3/n)

This comes just for a better pic of the unemployment rate for the country during the 2010s. (4/n)

Now comes the really bad part. Murders. The decade started with 25 per 100,000 people being murdered per year. The number CLIMBED to an almost unimaginable 29 per 100,000 homicides. In total, over 560,000 people have been killed unnecessarily, an average of 56,000 per year. (5/n)

Of course, as we can see in the previous figure, murders are distributed geographically. But worst is the racial undertone. There is a black genocide going on right now, in Brazil. Look at the data for the last decade. (6/n)

I wrote a bunch about violence in Brazil and showing how the country is an absurd outlier here. Let's move to deforestation. (7/n)

rzeidan.com/2016/06/23/how…

Deforestation? Thanks to chainsaw President, annual deforested land went up in 2019, after many years of decline. 2010? 7,000 km2 of deforestand land. This year? 9,762 km2. Deforestation in BolsoNERO's government has spiked. It is 40% higher than 10 years ago. Is this all? (8/n)

No, Brazilians, famously happen, has seen their self-reported quality of life erode. Data from the World Happiness report is clear. Its main index cratered, from 6.83 (scale from 0 to 10) to 6.2 (trust in government declined from 0.5 to 0.16). So what can we learn? (9/10).

Since education and healthcare have not improved, on pretty much all dimensions that matter, life has become harder to the average Brazilian family in the last 10 years. I won't talk about causes here, but all horrible governments contributed to this lost decade. Fin.

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#econtwitter Some hard data about the dire situation of the Brazilian economy, crime and other social outcomes: a Lost Decade. There may be a genocide going on. Might interest @causalinf @economeager @leah_boustan @imbernomics @jenniferdoleac @DinaPomeranz @NeilLewisJr etc

Correct twitter 9/10: Brazilians, famously happy, felt their self-reported quality of life decline. Data f/ the World Happiness report is clear. Its main index cratered, from 6.83 (scale from 0 to 10) to 6.2 (trust in government declined from 0.5 to 0.16). So what can we learn?