O Estado-produtor de petróleo e as transformações na economia do Rio Grande do Norte, nos anos 80.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of the State in the process of transformation of the economy of Rio Grande do Norte in the 1980s, highlighting the intervention of the State in the economic and social specialties of the oil sector. From the theoretical framework, the attempt to adjust the Brazilian economy in the 1980s, preceded by the analysis of the periods of the "Brazilian miracle" - 1968/73 and the acceleration of the external indebtedness of Brazil - 1974/80, with emphasis to the oil question. It highlights the development and growth of the Brazilian oil sector in those periods, and in what way, this performance reflects in the productive activity of the RN. It notes that the presence of the State in the RN was striking as a producer, in the implantation of the oil and natural gas extraction industry, and as a promoter of investments in the agriculture and services sectors, capable of transforming the productive and economic base and creating alternatives for the new activities linked or not to the oil sector. As a result of empirical-theoretical research, it was concluded that the role of the State was preponderant in the transformations and performance of the NN economy in the 1930s, and shows that the growth of the state economy-GDP- was above the Northeast and of Brazil.