Management reform and social advancement in a semi-stagnant economy

• Autor(a) principal: Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6760
• topic: public management; state reform.; gestão pública; reforma do Estado.

Twenty years after the transition to democracy in Brazil we realize that political and institutional development was sizeable: democracy is today consolidated, and its institutions are being continuously improved. The 1995-98 public management reform is part of this larger process. In so far as it responded to a social need, and enhanced senior civil servants, it is being gradually implemented at federal, state and municipal level. Social development was also significant since 1980, as the improvement of social indicators demonstrate. This was possible because social expenditures per capita increased 43.4% between 1980 and 2000. Yet, in the same period, income per capita increased just 8.5%. In a first moment, the debt crisis, high inflation, and a crisis of the state were behind semi-stagnation. Since price stability was achieved in 1994, equivocated macroeconomic policies, following a conventional orthodoxy, explain the bad outcomes.