Liberal Reforms and Decentralization in Brazil (1990-2002): the performance of Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES)

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Vico
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/27464
• topic: Reformas liberais; Privatizações; Abertura comercial; Descentralização; BNDES; Reformas políticas e econômicas; Brazil; Liberal reforms; Privatization; Trade liberalization; Decentralization; BNDES

Between 1990 to 2002, under the governments of Fernando Collor de Mello and Fernando Henrique Cardoso – not forgetting the interregnum Itamar Franco’s governments – Brazil has deepened the process of liberal reforms. Despite adhere late the reforms, compared to other countries of South America, in that moment Brazil passed for a broad process of social, economic and administrative transformations. This restructuring was based in a new Brazil’s adequacy to the transformations in the international relations post-Cold War. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyze the relation between the process of liberal reforms undertaken in Brazil – specially the trade liberalization and privatizations, beyond the decentralization’s process in governmental sectors – with the strategy to be a responsible State and integrant on the new global context.