Resumen:
"The recent decision by the US and various European governments to intervene in the financial system as a response to the crisis once more calls non-intervention of the State in economic domain as a dogma and construction of a minimal State as a directive into question. The crisis tends to strengthen the understanding of complementarity between the State and market and the need to mobilize on the discussion regarding
reconstructing public governance. Policies should be the focus of public action without setting aside the search for a more and more competitive economy in this new global context. This implies improving management as a way of rationalizing expenditure without compromising assisting the population. The importance of the public management theme on government agendas is therefore reaffirmed, given the centrality of concern with the State’s institutional capacity to fulfil its role.Firstly, this paper approaches these world transformations and changes to the State’s role. It then contextualizes the Brazilian economic situation which has made significant advances in recent decades. However it recognizes that there is much to be done to improve public management. It presents innovative solutions that the country has been finding for this, having the directives of the Brasília Letter on Public Management, set out in the National Public Management Agenda, as a basis. Among these solutions are innovations in human resources
management, management models, management cycle instruments, the federal agenda, intensive technological use, revision of the legal mark, combating corruption and carrying out studies and research. All of this sets off from the principle that it is essential to guide State action for results, under the cover of good governance, while focusing on citizens and guaranteeing quality public expenditure at the same time."
