Brazil's Possible Future: Italy

In Brazil there is saying that if we ever become a first-world country we will be like Italy, with all the good and bad.

This FT article kind of describes the bad things:

"In Italy we have a huge bureaucracy but no state, an administration of nothing,” he says. “In Italy you start a project without money. In France politicians say you have to do this and the bureaucracy organises with public and private money and then there is the tender and building. A linear process. But here it is not like this."