Renan Santos: What they did was create very specific legislation to monitor and assist those municipalities in getting out of bankruptcy.
Renan Santos: They used lots of performance indicators and very strict evaluation criteria to see whether it was worth that city continuing to exist.
Cities that couldn't meet those indicators would either be subject to federal intervention or would merge with neighboring cities.
Renan Santos: Do you know anyone proposing this in Brazil?
Renan Santos: They established a classification model with a city that was almost at that level of trouble, marking it yellow and red for a city that needed intervention.