A member of Brazil’s federal Chamber of Deputies is proposing tax breaks and the country’s oil-driven Social Fund as ways to support the country’s troubled science base.
Lawmakers have been scrambling to find a way to recover funding for Brazilian research, after the science ministry’s budget was frozen five years ago and slashed by 20 per cent in 2017.
At a meeting on 22 December, chamber member Celso Pansera presented the Brazilian science academy’s president Luiz Davidovich with two bills through which parliament could support science, the academy reported on 1 January.
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