Conference Presentation, Fireside Chat, Interview
A Conversation with Fernando Haddad, Minister of Finance of Brazil | Global Conference 2025
- Brazil projects sustainable growth averaging 3% annually, with expectations that the IMF will revise the country's growth potential upward from 1.5% to 2.5%, while the current administration aims to consolidate a minimum 3% growth rate before the end of the current presidential term.
- Economic strategy includes devaluing data center investments and exports due to anticipated tax reform impacts, advancing a reindustrialization project under the Vice Presidency, and improving legislation for concessions and public-private partnerships.
- Significant capital is anticipated, including a specific company's pledged 34 billion in investments by 2030 and hundreds of billions across diverse sectors to support a portfolio with room for further expansion.
- Foreign policy outlooks involve maintaining favorable economic relations with the United States under the Trump administration, utilizing the G20 presidency to support COP30 debates, and leveraging BRICS influence to drive institutional reforms in multilateral organizations representing two-thirds of the global population and 80% of global GDP.
- Environmental and digital agendas focus on the digital economy developing as a green sector, resolving copyright and competition regulatory issues within the current year, and introducing advanced financial arrangements for environmental services and international carbon credit market models during COP events.
- International engagement plans center on Brazil serving as the focal point for global attention in November with the implementation of COP30 in Belém, supported by a Milken Institute preparatory event in São Paulo on November 10 and 11 to connect capital with impact.