Recursos externos para a administração pública: a contribuição dos novos Bancos Multilaterais de Desenvolvimento

Multilateral development banks are international organizations and, therefore, subjects of Public International Law, aimed at promoting financial cooperation through loans and donations to infrastructure projects, acquisition of goods and services for the Public Administration. The creation of the first banks occurred at the end of World War II, in the context of post-war reconstruction. Brazil has a constitutional and legal framework that allows the use of external resources from multilateral banks, as well as the waiver of domestic legislation for the application of external rules, subject to constitutional and procedural requirements. In the first decades of the 21st century, due to the economic growth of emerging countries and the need for greater representation of their decisions in international organizations, new multilateral banks have been created. These banks are characterized by their more flexible rules, greater possibility to make use of national procurement and contracting rules, use of local currency, and fewer conditionalities. Faced with an international context marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and high inflation, foreign resources qualify as an alternative to contribute to national public policies, and Brazilian institutions need to qualify themselves to be able to request funding for projects of public interest.