Investimento produtivo no Segundo Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento

Abstract

The Second National Development Plan was a plan that was intended to transform the country, in a highly industrialized nation, the last government attempt to convert Brazil into the same level of developed countries. This plan had two main objectives: both balance and adjust the balance of payments as to advance the process of import substitution. Objective with this study was to analyze how the investment gave the corresponding period the plan and the consequences of these investments in the Brazilian economy in the period after the II PND. The research has a descriptive character but also a documentary research, by analyzing the project itself and a literature search, by observing that analyze texts the period studied in the monograph, evaluating the macroeconomic behavior in order to have a consistent analysis of the subject. It also identifies the situation that the plane was inserted. As a consequence of the II PND, it appears to be of fundamental importance in the external adjustment is essential in maintaining economic growth. The investment rate was another factor that sought to be maintained at a level that avoids disrupt plans for sustaining economic growth, with huge investments in the areas selected as priorities by the plan. There has been a diversification of production, inserting some other industrialized regions previously not so modernized and incorporated the dynamics of production of the country, consolidating the internal market and enhancing national competitiveness. But some investments did not return and the most striking negative result caused by the plan, which was one of the modes of investment, arising from loans abroad, caused a substantial increase in external debt.