https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/525819 BNDES in focus - Articles | BNDES en foco - Artículos Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:30:14 GMT 2026-06-04T21:30:14Z https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529520 Title: Soft power, hard aspirations: the shifting role of power in brazilian foreign policy Abstract: Journalists and policy analysts have highlighted the emergence of Brazil as a regional power. However, little attention has been paid to its foreign policy strategies. Brazil's rise to prominence in world politics represents the historical culmination of a foreign policy featuring two main strategies – persuasion and consensus building – both of which emphasise the use of soft power. We analyse four current foreign policy initiatives: the campaign for a permanent seat on the UNSC; the development of a nuclear submarine; Brazil's leadership of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti; and government support for Brazilian multinationals. We suggest a growing tension between these initiatives and the two strategies identified above. These initiatives reflect the view current among some policymakers that if Brazil is to rise as a global power it must play by the rules of great power politics. Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529520 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529519 Title: Os acordos de Basileia e bancos de desenvolvimento no Brasil : uma avaliação do BNDES e BNB Abstract: In Brazil, development banks were subject to the regulatory requirements of Basel Accords and treated similTudo bemarly to other institutions belonging to the Brazilian financial system. However, given the idiosyncratic nature of development banks it is often argued that the implementation of agreements of this type to these institutions is not adequate, as long as it could prevent them from fulfilling their mission effectively. Therefore, this article aims to assess whether the submission of two major Brazilian development banks, BNDES and BNB, to the Basel regulatory framework caused a loss of dynamism of these institutions in order to prevent full or partial compliance with its functions. We conclude that the two institutions mentioned were affected asymmetrically by the regulatory requirements associated with Basel Accords, allowing the BNDES to exercise its functions with some little limitation, but heavily damaging the BNB in the exercise of its functions as a development bank. Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529519 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529514 Title: Políticas públicas e internacionalização de empresas brasileiras Abstract: The productive internationalization is an essential process to the enterprises strengthening and nations competitiveness growing, due to positive impact on their flows, technology and foreign exchange trade. The major developed economies were pioneers in supporting their enterprises trade and productive internationalization, by creation of funding programs, market research, insurance and guarantees, and trade missions. The objective of this text is to analyze the Brazilian State role played in the several cycles of local companies productive internationalization on the one hand and display in detail the more decisive role of the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) in the “national champions” formation and productive internationalization during the early years of this century on the other. The main conclusion is that the bank, to support groups that operate in capital and natural resources intensive industries, has reinforced the regressive specializations and the adaptation technological pattern. Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529514 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529513 Title: Privatização e financeirização de infraestruturas no Brasil : agentes e estratégias rentistas no pós-crise mundial de 2008 Abstract: Infrastructure production in Brazil has undergone important transformations since the 1990s, articulating itself with the country’s alignment with a neoliberal agenda. The adoption of countercyclical policies in response to the 2008 crisis, expands and makes the nature of these processes even more complex. The historical role of the BNDES in conducting the privatization processes and the growing economic and political power of the major national contractors are taking is central elements to understand this process. Discussing with the international debate about privatization and financialization of infrastructures, we seek to understand the Brazilian case in order to problematize the increase centrality of rent accumulation. The article is developed through the analysis of institutional arrangements, dominant agents and accumulation strategies, considering the systematization and critical interpretation of the bibliography, documents and data referring to the transformation of the sector. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://bibliotecadigital.dth.api.gov.br/handle/123456789/529513 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z