SÃO PAULO — Brazil is approaching its most consequential election since the end of military rule more than three decades ago.

WASHINGTON, DC — Globalisation has come under fire in recent years, with people in some countries becoming increasingly frustrated with the uneven distribution of its gains.

Now that impeached Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is out of office, it is up to the newly empowered administration of President Michel Temer to clean up Brazil’s macroeconomic mess.Can Temer’s government save Brazil’s crumbling economy?The situation is certainly dire.