Neoliberalization of infrastructure: regulatory changes and configuration of the Brazilian electric sector (1990-2018)

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Deborah Werner

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The article aims to analyze the rounds of neoliberalization and the configuration of the Brazilian electric sector, resulting from the sectoral reforms of the decades of 1990 and, besides the proposal of privatization of Eletrobrás, from 2017. Through the analysis of secondary data and documents referring to the electrical sector, submitted to the theoretical framework about the processes of neoliberalization, it is verified that the reforms allowed the acting of new sectorial agents and revealed the link of this sector with the international insertion of the country, related to the exportation of commodities and to the financialization, which can be verified in the analysis of the corporate chain of hydroelectric dams.


 

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Deborah Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Economista, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brasil. Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil. Doutora em Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Professora do Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Pesquisadora do Grupo de Pesquisa registrado no Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ) "Espaço e Poder", e membro do Grupo de Trabalho Clacso "Desarrollo, espacio y capitalismo global" (2016-2019). E-mail: deborahwernerippur@gmail.com

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Werner, D. . (2019). Neoliberalization of infrastructure: regulatory changes and configuration of the Brazilian electric sector (1990-2018). Semestre Económico, 22(50), 151-177. https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v22n50a8

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