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Customers stand in line to speak to an employee about withdrawing money from the Workers Severance Fund (FGTS) inside a Caixa Economica Federal bank branch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, March 9, 2017. For Brazil's economy, it's been a terrible time. In 2016, it shrank 3.6 percent, the second straight year of grinding recession. But President Michel Temer says that freeing up at least 30 billion reais from the savings fund could add half a percentage point to growth this year. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Customers stand in line to speak to an employee about withdrawing money from the Workers Severance Fund (FGTS) inside a Caixa Economica Federal bank branch in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, March 9, 2017. For Brazil's economy, it's been a terrible time. In 2016, it shrank 3.6 percent, the second straight year of grinding recession. But President Michel Temer says that freeing up at least 30 billion reais from the savings fund could add half a percentage point to growth this year. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images