The crisis that looks like no other: reflections on the “corona-crisis”

Abstract

The objective of this text is to deepen the debate about a global economic crisis, which was already forming, but immensely catalyzed by the Covid-19 crisis. The analysis, comparison of data from authorized institutions, seeks, based on the indicators of the global crisis, to always do or contradict Brazil. One of the conclusions highlighted in the text is the current crisis, also called "Corona Crisis", is one of the most relevant in history and has already overcome the Great Depression of 1929, mainly in the speed with which the world economy is deteriorating. In this crisis, the worsening of macroeconomic and social indicators, which developed in the 1930s in three years, occurred in three weeks. The article also concludes that Brazil faces a sum of simultaneous crises, which influence each other.