Privatização, bem-estar e desenvolvimento: experiências e reflexos no Brasil

Abstract

Debates on the issue of privatization of public companies have been at the heart of political and economic debate in recent decades not only in Brazil, but also in more developed countries, arguably having Europeans as the greatest exponents - countries such as France, Spain and United Kingdom had extensive government involvement in the various sectors of the economy, going beyond what we can consider as natural monopolies. The privatization process that the world's major economies are going through or have gone through in recent years is part of a global movement towards liberalization, and is generally supported by academics in the fields of economics – however, the impact of such policies needs to be observed with caution. Given the previous considerations, the purpose of the present work is to observe and evaluate the conduct and the results of the privatization processes in countries where the chain of such march has developed in a more complete way, aiming to understand the prism adopted by foreign countries and then to conjecture the outcome of the processes in progress or on the agenda in our country – in addition to observing the results of those that have already occurred – always adapting to the different reality of Brazil, which has its own purposes for privatization and its own social welfare needs.