THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE BRAZILIAN STATE PUBLIC SECTOR TOWARD THE 1990'S PRIVATIZATION

This paper has as its main object to examine the mechanisms that triggered the profound crisis of the Brazilian State-owned enterprises over the years 1980 opening space, thus, for the strengthening of privatista project implemented with great force in the years 1990. Part of the central hypothesis that the main arguments privatistas captained in the 1990 don't hold up empirically. Thus, the economic bankruptcy of sees have been slowly gestated from economic policy put in place in the years 1970, mainly from the II National Development Plan of 1974. For operationalization of the hypothesis here built will be investigated the main legal frameworks of privatista project implemented during the civil-military dictatorship, the reports of the Federal Council of Privatization and the National Development Bank (BNDES), principal manager of the privatization program.