Abstract

WERNER, Deborah. NEOLIBERALIZATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE: REGULATORY CHANGES AND CONFIGURATION OF THE BRAZILIAN ELECTRIC SECTOR (1990-2018). Semest. Econ. [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.50, pp.151-177. ISSN 0120-6346.  https://doi.org/10.22395/seec.v22n50a8.

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.

JEL CLASSIFICATION: H54, P11, Q48

CONTENT: Introduction. 1. Post-1990 neoliberalization rounds; 2. The configuration of the Brazilian electric sector after the reforms; 3. The new neoliberal round: the resumption of privatizations; 4. Conclusions; Bibliography.

Keywords : Neoliberalization; infrastructure; regulatory reforms; governmental policies; electrical energy; Brazil.

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