Brazilians Support Anti-Inflation Plan: Seven out of...
Brazilians Support Anti-Inflation Plan: Seven out of 10 Brazilians support the tough anti-inflation plan of President Fernando Collor de Mello, which has frozen most of the money in the country for 18 months, according to a poll. Published exactly a month after Collor took office, the poll said 71% thought the plan was good and 10% thought it was bad. The poll was published by the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. A poll published by the newspaper on March 21 found that 81% thought the plan was good. Collor set very low limits on how much money people could take from their existing bank account balances to try to beat inflation of nearly 5,000%.
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