O estado no Brasil : fontes de financiamento, atribuições e pontos de estrangulamento

Abstract

The objective of this work is to present the financing sources and attributions of the State in Brazil during the 1990's, as well as its crucial issues considering the transformations endured by the Country after the enactment of the 1988 Federal Constitution and political redemocratization. A greater external insertion of the Brazilian economy occurs simultaneously to these internal transformations, produced by commercial, production and financial openings in which the globalization and neoliberalism serve as fundamental ideas. In this context, the financing and the State s role change drastically in regards to the model of development in effect until the 1980 s. Therefore, a brief historical analysis of the Brazilian economy will be performed, searching for financial assistance to understand the Brazilian State s origin, and the reasons for its changes throughout time. Differently than expected, the central assumption is that the changes by the 1988 Constitution and by the implementation of neoliberalism policies did not improve the State s financing, and therefore harmed the execution of the functions attributed to it.