Consolidating the neoliberal agenda in Brazil of the 1990s: the construction of the “consensus” coming from Washington

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  • Monica Piccolo Almeida Chaves Departamento de História e Geografia da Universidade Estadual do Maranhão. Rua da Estrela, nº 329, Centro Histórico. 65010-200 São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil.

Abstract

The present article proposes to analyze the process of transformation of the agenda built on the basis of the “Washington Consensus” into the driving axis of Brazilian economic policy during the administration of Fernando Collor de Melo. Taking as a starting point the negotiations of the Brazilian foreign debt, by means of the signing of the Brady Plan in 1990, the article traces the relations between the external debt negotiations and the determinations of the “Washington Consensus”, including the critique of its determinations made in the 2000s by its own developer, John Williamson. Through the analysis of the agents responsible for conducting the economic policy during the Collor administration, the aim is to demonstrate the inefficiency of the political-economic project driven by Washington’s agenda which came to power in 1990, either to promote the recovery of the national economy or to ensure unity among the so-called “hard core” of government.

Author Biography

Monica Piccolo Almeida Chaves, Departamento de História e Geografia da Universidade Estadual do Maranhão. Rua da Estrela, nº 329, Centro Histórico. 65010-200 São Luís, Maranhão, Brasil.

Graduada em História (1991) e mestre em História Social (1997) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Doutora em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (2010). Professora Adjunto III do Departamento de História e Geografia da Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Coordenadora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História (PPGHist/UEMA) e professora vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação e Desenvolvimento Socioespecial e Regional da mesma Universidade. . É coordenadora do Núcleo de Pesquisa em História Contemporânea (NUPEHIC) e membro fundadora do INCT Proprietas. Coordenadora Geral do IECT Gestão Pública e Economia Criativa. Tem experiência na área de História, com ênfase em História do Brasil República, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: história econômica, história política, ditadura civil-militar e processo eleitoral

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Published

2019-12-27

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2020): Maio/Agosto

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