Is the current brazilian policy on training and development fit for its purpose?
Officially Brazil is a Federal Republic - Federative Republic of Brazil – It is composed by 26 states and one federal district. According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), the Brazilian population in 2011 was estimated in 192 million. The current president of Brazil is Dilma Rousseff, the first woman ever to become president in Brazil. On the 31st of October she was elected with almost 56 millions of votes. She took the presidency over from Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and started her presidential duties on the 1 January 2011. The Brazilian Republic was proclaimed in 1889 and in 1891 the first Republican Constitution was created where it was established the universal suffrage for citizens. On 1988 The Constitution of Brazil, brought in their articles, the foundations of the Republic, and they were the following: the human dignity, sovereignty, citizenship, social values and free enterprise.
Settings the scene: Public Policies and Dilma’s Government
Dye (1984) summarizes the definition of public policy as "what the government chooses to do or not to do."
The Public Policy, in Brazil’s case, is defined as the set of actions triggered by the state in federal, state and municipal scales with the aim to meet certain sectors of civil society. They can be developed in partnership with non governmental organizations and with the private sector. The State proposes preventive actions in situations of risk to society through public policy. Despite that, there have been many arguments insinuating that the decisions regarding the above are most likely to advantage certain sectors and not always geared to the majority population.
According to different sources (CNI (Confederação Nacional da Indústria) 2011 and DN (Dono da Noticia) 2011), Dilma’s Government has been considered the best one in Brazil’s history. At the very beginning of her mandate, Dilma announced the budget cut of 50 billion Reais setting the