Brazilian Energy Policy: Changing Course?
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Energy, Institutional Reforms and Development in Latin America
English Abstract
This paper compares the Brazilian Energy Policy in the last decade with that followed after the second world war. We contend that the energy policies followed since the 1950s showed a certain continuity and allowed the energy sector to respond with remarkable efficiency to the challenges posed by the Brazilian economy for over a quarter of a century, at least until the middle 1970s. We assume that, from the 1980s onwards, the energy policies until then adopted lost their effectiveness. As a consequence, several impasses appeared which led administrations during the 1990s to adopt radical ...