INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ECONOMIC POLICIES IN LULA AND ROUSSEFF GOVERNMENTS

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Lucas Gonçalves de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Análise Econômica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/AnaliseEconomica/article/view/99004
• topic: Economia Brasileira; Política Econômica; Crescimento Econômico; Governo Lula; Governo Rousseff; B20; N16; O11; O23.; Brazilian economy; Economic policy; Economic growth; Lula government; Rousseff government; B20; N16; O11; O23

This work aims to investigate the controversy between the interpretationsof the economic policies in the Lula (2003 – 2010) and Rousseff (2011 – 2016) governments and their relation with the economic performance in those periods, primarily theeconomic growth. From the methodological point of view, two choices are made. Thefirst consists on the separation of the governments and the creation of a section for eachone of them. It is understood that it results from a imposition of the object itself as, inmany cases, authors deal with them separately in their works. In this case, it is impossible to present the literature without pointing out this fact. The second consists on thedivision of the interpretations in two groups: those more aligned to the mainstream andthose closer to the heterodoxy. This option aims to facilitate the exposition and make the empirical material studied more organic. The hypotheses are two: the first one isthat the mainstream authors explain the positive performance of Lula’s governmentfrom the evolution of the external sector and blame the economic policies for the crisis,with focus on the macroeconomic matrix from Rousseff ’s government; the second isthat the heterodox authors defend the economic policies from Lula’s government asthe main responsible for the highest growth rate and understand the crisis as a result ofexogenous variables, may them be external (international crisis), or internal (political orinstitutional factors).