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The Brazilian Economic Policy: From the Crisis of Import Substitution to the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento

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In his article on economic policy, Stefan Schmalz looks into the assumption that there has been a slow re-orientation process in Brazil that favored the return of the developmentalist State. Accordingly an economic model with more State influence gained strength, quasi as a counterpart to what happened within the neo-liberal model in the early 1990s. The gradual and negotiated transition to a new developmental State model (novo desenvolvimentismo) was possible through a social democratic alliance at the parliamentary level after the economic crisis of the late 1990s. Under Lula the system obtained a new quality, above all through massive programs for infrastructure development (programas de aceleração do crescimento, PAC I and II). Nonetheless, this development model is still considered contradictory as environmental and rural conflicts remain unsolved. Thus, despite the income growth, the rural population is still excluded from the modernization project while the high concentration of land property continues to exist.

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    The term ABC refers to three villages of the urban hinterland of São Paulo: Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul.

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Schmalz, S. (2016). The Brazilian Economic Policy: From the Crisis of Import Substitution to the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento . In: de la Fontaine, D., Stehnken, T. (eds) The Political System of Brazil. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40023-0_15

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