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What was a barrier to growth turned into a growth opportunity. While the previous governments abandoned the construction and maintenance of highways, railways, ports, airports, hydroelectric plants and refineries, the solution of the democratic and popular government was to give the country the necessary infrastructure to grow more and more. The Growth Acceleration Program (AGP) turned Brazil into a huge construction site, based on public investment and public-private partnerships. A total of R$ 1.5 trillion was invested between 2007 and 2014. In ten years, investment by state companies had real growth of 205%, from R$ 37.2 billion in 2003 to a record high of R$ 113,.5 billion in 2013.
Government infrastructure concession grants by the Dilma Administration are increasingly attracting private capital, both domestic and foreign. There were 18 auctions in the areas of transport, energy, oil and gas in 2013, to generate employment and income and boost the economy as a whole. The contracts will bring a total of R$ 80.3 billion in investment: R$ 28.7 billion in highway construction, R$ 26.6 billion in power generation, R$ 8.7 billion in transmission lines, R$ 7 billion in airports, R$ 6.9 billion in oil and gas (only under the Minimum Exploration Program, which evaluates the commercial potential of the bid fields) and R$ 2.4 billion in port improvements.
"We made it possible to the use of part of our reserves to finance exports, reduced the reserve requirements for banks to increase lending capacity, with the same objective promoted the purchase of some private banks and local banks by federal government banks. We created tax incentives for the automotive industry that revitalized this sector and we will finance the construction of one million houses over the next two years. We have not hesitated to draw on all instruments of state power to mitigate the effects of the crisis. That same State, that some wanted to minimize and render inoperative now has many of these same people knocking on the door asking for help. Yesterday's demon became today’s savior. "
"We have achieved in Brazil a considerable institutional maturity, which helps us realize that it is possible to reconcile fiscal strength and investment. That is something that is not contradictory, because what helps us to withstand the crisis and to be able to have a kind of protection against the effects of this crisis is the fact that we have this team, fiscal soundness of the federal government and the states ( ...) that for their efforts opened fiscal space investment, and demonstrate that the country can afford to invest and maintain the principles of stability. This is very important in the world we live in, because it is not common. We went through a long process of learning, two lost decades, in our recent history. But the experience of those two decades at least contributed to our understanding that the path to take today is fiscal responsibility, the ability to be consistent macro-economically, and that with stability we can help Brazil grow. "