A economia mundial

Nominalisation in Economic Discourse

Economic Portuguese favours nominalisation — turning verbs into nouns. This creates a formal, impersonal tone typical of reports and analysis.

crescer → o crescimento (growth); investir → o investimento (investment); recuperar → a recuperação (recovery)

O crescimento do PIB abrandou. — GDP growth slowed.

Performatives in Economic Language

Performatives are utterances that perform an action: declarar (to declare), anunciar (to announce), ratificar (to ratify). They are central to economic communication.

O BCE declara que a taxa de juro se mantém. — The ECB declares that the interest rate remains unchanged.

Expressing Causation and Consequence

Advanced economic argumentation chains causes and effects using: dado que (given that), visto que (seeing that), em virtude de (by virtue of), o que conduziu a (which led to).

Dado que a inflação disparou, o banco central interveio. — Given that inflation soared, the central bank intervened.

A austeridade prolongada conduziu a uma recessão. — Prolonged austerity led to a recession.