(FT) -- Dilma Rousseff pledged to prevent the "plague" of inflation as she took over the presidency of Brazil from her political mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
"To ensure the continuation of the current economic growth cycle we need to ensure stability, especially price stability", Ms Rousseff said in her inaugural speech to Congress on Saturday.
"We won't allow under any hypothesis that this plague returns to eat away our economic tissue and hurt the poorest families," Brazil's first female president added.
Ms Rousseff takes over from Mr Lula da Silva, who leaves office as the most popular leader on record in Brazil after overseeing growth last year forecast to be the fastest since the mid-1980s.
The career civil servant and former political activist promises continuity with the policies of her predecessor who served two terms in office as head of the leftwing Workers' party (PT). CNN
