2016 was another difficult year for the consulting market in Brazil, which grew by only 0.1% to reach a value of US$1,189m. It was a year of two halves, with the first half of the year dominated by the political and economic crisis that had dogged 2015. Things improved towards the end of the year, with the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff providing an inflection point. Beneath the flat market lay performances by individual firms that varied quite widely, but even so, few are likely to look back on 2016 with particularly fond memories.