The Growth Acceleration Program (PAC): a preliminary analysis of the implications of PAC-1 on social and urban infrastructure investments

Abstract

In this article, the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) is analysed, taking as its basis  intentions that permeate investments in social and urban infrastructure, markedly in the sanitation sector, seeking to understand the trend in the second mandate of the Lula Administration - markedly under reference to the proposals of the first stage of the Growth Acceleration Program (Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento - PAC). The analysis undertaken is based on a critical theoretical-methodological direction, understanding it as capable of comprehending trends, determinations and contradictions that permeate the analyzed object. The results of the research show that the impact of this dynamic was based on the expansion of infrastructure growth and investment, materialized, initially, in the redefinition of the normative and financial apparatus for the sector, which, however, resonated the capitalism interests under the public/private motto, which permeates the social needs of access to water and sewage. Thus, this configuration is reaffirmed in the PAC context without significantly altering the deficit in meeting the demands for Basic Sanitation.