Comprehensions of ecnonomy and society in the BNDES of Lula and FHC

managerial and corporate perspectives

Abstract

Public management in the FHC and Lula governments took different directions and many of their economic and social policies were promoted by BNDES. In this context, the question arises whether BNDES financed the management of managerial strategies, such as those implemented by FHC with the New Public Administration or societal strategies, with LULA's social developmentalism, or whether a hybridism of this characteristic would have existed in Lula's term, preserving managerial characteristics typical of neoliberalism. This article aims to analyze how the scope of BNDES is carried out in the thematic contents of both administrations, through its discursive manifestation. To this end, three categories were considered: Infrastructure, Microcredit and Education, identified in two annual reports of the BNDES for the year 2000, during the FHC and Lula administrations, in 2004. The analysis revealed that the discursive manifestations of the BNDES reports were constructed on the ideals and guidelines of managerial management, based on a policy of continuity of the neoliberal movement of the State restructuring plan, despite the fact that during the Lula administration they were mixed with the developmental and social perspective. It is concluded that the BNDES during the Lula administration preserved neoliberal and managerial characteristics and combined them with societal management.