Bancos multilaterais de desenvolvimento e capacidade estatal : o BID, o Brasil e a Argentina

Abstract

In institutionalist perspective, state capacity is increasingly recognized as a necessary, but insufficient requirement for development.Development agencies, such as multilateral development banks, also aim at promoting development.However, there are virtually no studies on the relation between multilateral development banks and state capacity.The analysis concerns the relations between the Inter-American Development Bank's programs of State Modernization and the constituent basic elements of state capacity (tax collection capacity and qualified bureaucratic-administrative staff) of Brazil and Argentina in a time when everyone believed it was necessary to reform the state -the rise of neoliberal ideas in Latin America -specifically between the years 1990 and 2002.Methodologically, this dissertation is structured by a comparative strategy around the IDB-Brazil and IDB-Argentina relations.Path dependency, concern for national autonomy and convergence (self-conviction) around the principles underlying the programs are factors that affect the quantity and quality of the partnerships between banks and borrowers and hence the potential for transformation of state capacity.In this sense, the studied cases suggest that the role of multilateral development banks is limited and, even when the borrower is extremely committed to the reforms, it does not necessarily mean increased state capacity.These programs have the potential to magnify the results, but this may be positively or negatively.

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