‘Young people know that they will have more difficulty than their parents’, says economist Paulo Tafner

CEO of the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS), economist Paulo Tafner is pessimistic about the prospects for the country’s young people to rise. Tafner believes that young people will not be able to overcome the stage of social well-being and income of their parents, unlike what happened with the previous generation, despite the gains in access to education in the country in recent decades. And he warns that this contributes to the loss of social cohesion in Brazil. “Young people don’t see society investing in them and think: ‘I’m alone, it’s all up to me.'”