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Brazil Science and Technology as a Pressure Group
Science and Technology as a Pressure Group, 1979-90
In the "science and technology as a pressure group" period,
which started at the beginning of the last military presidency of
João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (1979-85) and included
the first civilian government of José Sarney (1985-90), the
picture changed completely. The Planning and Economy ministries
were unified, and the science and technology sector lost its privileged
access to the higher echelons; no resources were available to correspond
to the increasing expectations of the previous years; scientists,
engineers, and public employees in the science and technology sector
became one among many different interest groups competing for resources
from a government concerned only with its political survival and
the administration of a mounting
external debt and inflation.
Data as of April 1997
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