'Management shock' promises to be a highlight in 2014.
The model, coined by Aécio Neves during his two terms as governor of Minas Gerais (and continued by his successor Antonio Anastasia), will receive attention from all sides in the presidential campaign. The senator from the PSDB party has already demonstrated that it will be one of the pillars of his electoral propaganda. But economists and Dilma herself are trying to prove that it has flaws.
Minas 247 - The management overhaul implemented in Minas Gerais during his time as governor will be one of the main platforms of Senator Aécio Neves' (PSDB-MG) potential presidential campaign in 2014. This information comes from the newspaper. The State of S. Paul.
The so-called management shock is completing ten years since it began to be implemented, in a model developed by the School of Government of the João Pinheiro Foundation (FJP, in Belo Horizonte) and which consisted of bringing business principles to public administration. The focus is on the balance between expenses and revenues. "The revenue, today, is sufficient to pay all commitments," he said. Estadão The Secretary of Planning for Minas Gerais, Renata Vilhena.
Also interviewed by the newspaper, Fabrício Marques de Oliveira, an economist at the Legislative School and former Deputy Secretary of Finance for Minas Gerais, points out flaws in the model. According to him, there are several "accounting maneuvers" to mask the data later released by the state. "The government uses a budgetary concept that doesn't have much economic meaning. This concept even includes new debts as revenue. The public accounts are unrealistic," said the economist. "Without these credit operations, surpluses turn into deficits."
When she was still Lula's Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff went so far as to classify the "management shock" as a "propaganda concept" and argued that a government cannot be changed through "shock."