The Theory and Practice of Development in Brazil: The State and Public Policies as Capital Reproduction Tools

Edemar Rotta,Carlos Nelson Do Reis

doi:10.34257/gjhssevol20is5pg1

Abstract

This paper analyzes the theory and practice of development in Brazil within two specific contexts of developmental approaches. The first is located in the 1930s to 1950s and reaches its apex with the Goals Plan. The second emerges when developmentalism once again takes hold as neoliberal ideas face a crisis, of which the major example is the Growth Acceleration Program (GAP). Upon reviewing the literature and documents, we found the state’s proposed avenues of action, i.e. public policy, theoretical grounds, and concrete development-inducing actions. Classic developmentalism emerges from the crisis in the exporting agrarian model. It is based on positivist, nationalist, paperbacking, and industrialist ideas. From the Goals Plan, it received important input from ECLAC’s structuralism, Keynes’ ideas, and the theory of modernization.

Highlights

Researchers in this field agree that it takes place in a more structured manner in the 1950s, andIn complex societies and states, such as the ones prevailing in Latin America and Brazil today, the process of setting public policies tends to be imbued by myriad interests and concrete historical backdrops, both domestically and abroad
The state has “relative autonomy,” “its own operating sphere,” albeit one that is sensitive to internal and external influences (SOUZA, 2006). It is by following such dynamics of relationships that we intend to analyze two specific times in Brazil’s history and when developmentalist ideas prevail. the 1930-1970 period, seen as the birth and implementation of developmentalism; and the period from the first decade of the 21st century, when a center-leftist government wins the Presidency of the Republic and remains in power for over three consecutive terms (13 and a half years), when something some authors have dubbed the “new developmentalism” was put in place
Developmentalism emerges during a time of crisis for the agrarian exporting model, the prevalent one in Brazil since the country’s independence

Summary

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Global Journal of Human Social Science ( E ) Volume XX Issue V Version I Year 2020. This study is organized as follows: the first topic development in Brazil within two specific contexts of discusses developmentalism, its theoretical grounds developmental approaches. 1950s and reaches its apex with the Goals Plan. The second emerges when developmentalism once again takes hold as neoliberal ideas face a crisis, of which the major example is the Growth Acceleration Program (GAP). Upon reviewing the in on the Goals Plan, seen as the apex of this “model.” The second item describes the rebirth of developmentalism, based on the crisis hounding literature and documents, we found the state’s proposed neoliberal ideas and the emergence of the “new avenues of action, i.e. public policy, theoretical grounds, and developmentalism” and “social-developmentalism,” with 1 concrete development-inducing actions. Classic special focus on the Growth Acceleration Program developmentalism emerges from the crisis in the exporting (GAP). It is based on positivist, nationalist, paperbacking, and industrialist ideas. Classic Developmentalism and The received important input from ECLAC’s structuralism, Keynes’ ideas, and the theory of modernization

Introduction

The Goals Plan was set up based on five

The Brazilian social policy in the military regime

Gap as Reference

Investments made

Actions completed

The comeback of developmentalism in the early

Findings

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