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Twenty-first century developmental projects like those of the Brazilian Workers' Party take place in a regulatory context that--at least on paper--demands new scrutiny of their environmental and community impacts. Scholars of the democratic developmental state also argue that development now requires building human capabilities, promoting sustainable development, and seeking community feedback. We examine 302 electricity projects financed by BNDES to see if and when these developmentalist infrastructure projects faced challenging scrutiny on environmental and community impact grounds. 29 percent generated organized community opposition, extended licensing processes, and/or legal action. These were most common for large projects and projects where community and state actors worked together in blocking coalitions. We conclude that the ideals of the democratic developmental state are more compatible in theory than in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the similarities and differences between neo-developmentalism and neo-extractivism. The evaluation compares Brazil with nine other Latin American countries and is based on a framework that considers both economic policies and their outcomes. On the policy side, it looks at income, monetary, international trade, industrial and mineral resource policies; on the outcome side, it observes the composition of both exports and the Gross Domestic Product. In the end, we argue that neo-developmentalism and neo-extractivism are actually variations of the same development route and may face similar challenges in the long term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The developmentalism period in Brazil starts to consolidate during the presidency of Getulio Vargas, but it becomes effective with the Plan of National Development during Juscelino Kubitschek's presidency, and extends to the military governments. With it, there is breakup, in the territorial plan, with the structure of "islands of prosperity", located on the coast and very few interconnected. The state investments, with JK, will happen in key sectors of production, such as energy, steel and mining. In this sector the activity was part of Fasa, a company based in Olinda city (Brazil-Pernambuco), making the process of exploration and production of phosphate which served, initially, the level of demands in the Northeast region of Brazil. With the linking of company policy by JK in the late 1950s, shows the reaching of the market located in the south of the country incentive provided by the installation of a Beneficiation Plant with longer industrial range. But this same undertaking, full of facts involved in various scales of the phenomenon studied here, paralyzed its activities still under military governments. Thus, this paper resulting from extracts of content needed for research of the objects of the master's and doctoral research, aims to reflect on the process of incorporation of the company and its link Fasa, and consequently, the developmentalism period. Anyway, it is clear that the production space of Fasa was the target of several policies that were established in a multi-scale dimension, revealing that the geographical space - a product of history - is strategy and analyze it under multiple scales makes It something essential in relation spacetime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper expects to prove that, between 1958 and 1962, Brazil and Argentina converged towards a national project with similar characteristics, reaching its highest point at the Uruguayana Accords. This successful outcome of the collaboration promoted by Kubistchek and Frondizi, and then further pursued by Quadros, was the result of a mutual decision to leave behind the traditional competitive relations and evolve towards a period of important joint action. In order to understand this paradigm shift, the elements relating to the configuration and influence of the internal and external context, the implementation of an independent foreign politics and the pursuit of objectives that would overcome economic dependency have been explored, while keeping in mind the different theoretic approaches of the main players. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]