Neoliberalismo e a recente política de privatização no Brasil: o caso da malha nordeste da Rede Ferroviária Federal S. A. – RFFSA

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Bastos, Fábio de Mendonça
• Orientador(a): Arruda, João Bosco Furtado
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Transportes; Economia; Neoliberalismo; Transporte ferroviário; Privatização; Transportes - Regulação; Agências reguladoras
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/4843

Neoliberalism practices are mainly based in the Minimum State idea, what means there must be minimum public intervention in the economic activity. Under this doctrine, economic activity must be regulated by the market and its laws, and its present version maintains as central reference the Adam Smith’s ideas. In this scene, privatization of firms owned by the State, even those considered strategic to national development, is one of the main consequencesof the neoliberal policies. This work presents an analysis of neoliberal ideas searching for the main relations between the neoliberalism ideas and recent privatizatoin policies in Transport sector in Brazil. The main point to be highlighted was to what degree the attained socio-economic results from privatization policies are as good asthose forecast by brazilian federal government and expected by brazilian society. Also, the regulation of the brazilian privatization process and the role of the Regulation Authorities are also discussed in this work. Some questions are hihglighted inthe work such as: What are the actual links between neoliberalism conceptual structure and recent privatization policies in Brazil? Which institutional and legal (laws, decrees, contract types and control mechanisms) tools support and make feasiblethe privatization actions? One can found ethic misleadings in the privatization process? The opportunity, necessity and timing of the privatizatiion process in Brazil, speciallyin the Transport sector, are defensible? A case study was developed concerning the Brazilian northeastern railroad network, till 1996 under the control of the federal railroad network Authority (Rede Ferroviária Federal– RFFSA). Results are discussed and show there was several misleadings in the privatization process in Brazil, speciallyin the northeastern railroad network case.