O modelo de desenvolvimento econômico brasileiro – programas de governo, planos plurianuais e orçamentos (2003 – 2015)

Abstract

This work aims to characterize the economic development model implemented in Brazil, in the period from 2003 to 2015, considering the relationship between Government Programs, Pluriannual Plans (PPA) and budget execution. It discusses the following issue: What is the federal government’s economic development model in the period 2003-2015, considering the proposals of the Government Programs (promises) and the implementation of the Pluriannual Plans and Budgets (actions)? The work discusses the thesis that there is a mismatch between the Government Programs, which pledged to lead the country to a differentiated level in terms of the reduction of social inequalities, and the PPA, which, to some extent, implemented projects that mainly benefited traditionally hegemonic large corporations, as opposed to an economy focused on the needs of the population as a whole and its workforce, and able to reverse the country's situation of structural economic inequality and the conflicts between capital and labor. The model implemented in Brazil, in the period 2003-2015, did not reverse the logic of accumulation in hegemonic sectors of capital, despite having incorporated social inclusion as a pillar, with the adoption of policies that favored income distribution among the popular classes, differing from the historical process in which growth was followed by an increase in inequality. This work is justified, from a theoretical point of view, by its contribution to the debate on the possibilities and limits of construction and implementation of development paradigms considered as alternatives to neoliberalism and the old developmentalism model that was established in the 1950s-1970s. The main sources of research are official documents on government programs, the pluriannual plans and budgets, secondary data from research institutions such as IBGE, IPEA and other public bodies, and semi-structured interviews, in addition to the bibliographic review of the works of authors such as Celso Furtado, Ricardo Bielschowsky, Luís Carlos Bresser Pereira, Pedro César Dutra Fonseca, Armando Boito Jr, André Singer, Emir Sader, Jessé Souza, among other authors associated with the developmentalist school of thought in Brazil, as well as authors who discuss the neoliberal economic model, such as Luiz Filgueiras, Juarez Guimarães and Perry Anderson.