O Banco Mundial, o banco do BRICS e a perspectiva de mudança à luz da governança econômica global

Abstract

This master thesis aims to discuss the changes in global economic governance through the analysis of the Voice Reforms in the World Bank and the creation of the BRICS Bank. Through an exploratory, bibliographical and documentary research, it analyzes how the countries are represented in the World Bank decision-making process, the performance of this international institution on the political scene, as well as what represents the creation of a new economic institution by a group of emerging countries. In the first chapter, the concept of global governance will be discussed from its emergence and consolidation in the study of international relations and how it was an important ally to understand the changes in the global order, especially in the economic area, including at this time the global economic governance. Then, in the second chapter, the World Bank will be examined from the point of view of its origin, its political structure and the reform to which it was subjected. Finally, the third chapter analyzes the impact of the Voice Reform - which was an initiative led by developing and emerging countries to achieve a series of changes in the composition of the World Bank shares- and then evaluates its main outcomes. Also in this chapter, the emergence of the BRICS will be presented, the Bank created by this group, the New Development Bank, and the prospects and challenges that a change in Bank policy composition can bring both to their internal organization as to its performance in the current international order. As a conclusion of this study, there is a need to implement effective reforms in the global economic governance that can promote the democratic participation of countries and then the international institution will effectively make its role in the new world order. The demand for a more equitable participation in the economic scenario explains the creation of the Bank of the BRICS, which is therefore a moment for reflection about the current power structures that dominate the international economic area and that do not reflect the economic weight of the countries that compose.