State Transformation in Brazil: Designing public procurement, state-owned enterprises and digital public infrastructure to advance sustainable and inclusive growth | Policy Report No. 2024/15.
Editor:
- Mariana Mazzucato : Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Executive Summary:
The Government of Brazil has committed to a model of economic development that prioritises decarbonising the economy, along with tackling hunger, extreme poverty and inequality. Its agenda of economic transformation – which is being advanced through initiatives such as the Ecological Transition Plan, the New Growth Acceleration Plan, the mission-oriented New Industrial Policy, and the Climate Plan – is deliberately bringing economic, social and environmental priorities into alignment. However, realising its full potential requires a parallel agenda of state transformation, to empower the public service to successfully direct growth and shape markets that work for the people of Brazil and for the planet.
The success of the government’s economic agenda will require a whole-of-government, cross-sectoral approach oriented around achieving shared goals, or “missions”, enabled by partnerships, capabilities, tools and institutions that are fit for purpose. This report explores the design and governance of public procurement, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and digital public infrastructure (DPI) as central elements of the government’s wider agenda of state transformation.
This report is based on a partnership between the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and Brazil’s Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI).
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Resumo Executivo:
O Governo Brasileiro comprometeu-se com um modelo de desenvolvimento econômico que prioriza a descarbonização da economia e o combate à fome, à extrema pobreza e à desigualdade. Sua agenda de transformação econômica visa alinhar as prioridades econômicas, sociais e ambientais. Para alcançar seu pleno potencial, será necessária uma agenda paralela de transformação do Estado, permitindo que o serviço público adote uma abordagem intersetorial e orientada por missões. Este relatório explora o design e a governança das compras públicas, das empresas estatais e da infraestrutura pública digital como fundamentais na agenda de transformação do Estado. Este estudo, iniciado em 2023, foi realizado em colaboração entre o Instituto para a Inovação e Propósito Público da UCL e o Ministério da Gestão e Inovação em Serviços Públicos, com apoio da Open Society Foundations.
Related work includes:
- Challenges and opportunities for inclusive and sustainable innovation-led growth in Brazil
- Leveraging procurement to advance Brazil’s economic transformation agenda
- A mission-oriented framework for the coordination of State-Owned Enterprises in Brazil
- Leveraging digital public infrastructures for the common good
- Transformational change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach
- Challenges and opportunities for Brazil
- Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights
Reference:
Mazzucato, M. (ed.) (2024). State Transformation in Brazil: Designing mission-oriented public procurement, state-owned enterprises and digital public infrastructure to advance sustainable and inclusive growth. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. IIPP Policy Report 2024/15. ISBN: 978-1-917384-34-6
Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/policyreport-2024-15