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...Known as Portaria 71 after the government decree that set it up, the plan not only provided credit incentives but established a new agency called the National Commission to Encourage the Stabilization of Prices (CONEP) to get the operation going, placed it under the direction of Guilherme Borghoff, one of Campos' chief aides. To set an example, the government barred price increases by such state-owned enterprises as the Volta Redonda steelworks, whose prices soared 148% last year. Though businessmen yelped when Campos raised taxes and suggested that they trim profit margins, they lined up to take the price...
Daily Blacklists. If it has not halted inflation altogether, Portaria 71 has at least helped. Last month's cost of living rose 3.8%-compared with 7.9% in March, 5.7% in February, 4.5% in January. Housewives in major cities have joined in the price fight, now publish daily blacklists of merchants who keep marking up. As a result, Campos is even predicting that in 1965 Brazil may be able to hold down its cost-of-living increase to a mere 32%-which would be the closest the country has come to price stability in five years...
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