Kim Kataguiri: They all advanced not with a populist and demagogic political class, but from a serious debate about where to invest public resources so that the Country would develop and workers would receive a larger share of the wealth generated.
Kim Kataguiri: Those countries did not just send money as a magical populist solution.
They invested in productivity, invested in infrastructure, invested in science and technology, all of which Brazil, in the last 40 years, chose not to do — chose the easy, lazy, populist path.
Kim Kataguiri: We had a succession of Presidents of the Republic who were only concerned with presenting the Budget to win the next election and zero concerned with making the Country grow, create jobs, generate income and make Brazil a developed country, which it could already be.
Kim Kataguiri: Among our peers, in emerging countries, productivity increased 128%.