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The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC)'s investments in transportation and the Brazilian multiplication effect since Lula da Silva's government

The transportation is a necessary condition to capital's circulation, therefore, it's also fundamental in production and reproduction of space. Based in tis assertive the paper objectify to perform an analysis about the fixed capital inversion, mainly in transportation work, made by federal government, through the Growth acceleration program investments. The investments in transportation, performed through the national intervention, can positively infer in job volume and effective demand, contributing to economic and social development. This analysis is based in the multiplication effect theory and idle capacity dialectic as means to learn the public investments relevancy in transportation infrastructure works. Such task brought with it the possibility to show what are the barriers to great public investments execution in the country and also allowed correlate the political speech to action. It is the transportation system inside the geographic knowledge, recognizing as one of the important aspects in this new national intervention period in national fluidity.

investments; multiplication effect; PAC; national development


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