So it is no surprise that the public sector is Brazil's weakestpoint in the World Economic Forum's latest Global Competitiveness Report, released on September 7th.
While it is unclear how much of its private equity assets Harvard managed to sell or at what price, it seems to have sold some assets when the market was at its weakestpoint.
There is a risk that history will repeat itself, as millions of poor and low income families find themselves at their weakest and most vulnerable point in the aftermath of the crises.
The RBI is widely expected to cut its key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point Tuesday to stimulate an economy growing at its weakest pace in a decade.