In addition to political instability and changes in government, Brazil’s economy suffered from the deterioration of several fundamentals. Fiscal imbalance, negative GDP growth, successive basic interest rate rises, a slowdown in the manufacturing and service sectors, rising inflation, the weakening of the real and rising unemployment all contributed to compound the crisis. This affected the performance of and the strategy adopted by the Mint, which derives its revenue nearly entirely from federal government contracts. To mitigate the most adverse effects from the crisis, the Mint has streamlined its internal processes and continued to invest in innovative products and developing new markets and customers.

Since 2014, Brazil has been engulfed in a combined political and economic crisis that has negatively affected nearly every industry in the country.