Private Participation in Infrastructure

Arno Meyer e Maurício Portugal Ribeiro

Since the early nineties, Brazil has gone through an extensive process of privatization involving sectors such as steel, petrochemicals, energy, telecommunications, highways, railroads, gas, and water supply. This process was one of the most comprehensive outside the transition economies world, and is comparable only to Great Britain’s privatization process during the Thatcher Administration.

This text tries to provide a brief description and evaluation of the Brazilian experience with privatization in infrastructure focusing on its legal and regulatory frameworks. In order to do that, I will refer to a set of topics