101 2015 vestment intentions but the execution and especially the conclusion, which is what really matters, fail to happen. It is worth mentioning that schedule is not only failed to comply with, but that the Court of Auditors, due to irregularities, interrupt most of the works. What makes us think: there are sufficient resources, the problem is that they are misused indeed... We know we invest significantly lesser than we should in order to be a developed and competitive country. It may not be appropriate doing some comparisons here, but USA in its development period (1950 to 1979) invested about 4% of their GDP in infrastructure and after this period (1980 to 2010) reduced to 2.3% of GDP, and that due to the crisis,actually increased this investment to 2.9% of GDP with a view to increasing the labor market and providing greater competitiveness to their products. See the detail of the strategy: If Government needs to invest to put economy in motion, it should invest on alternatives that support development and competitiveness. If we consider that the US GDP is almost 8 times higher than the Brazilian one and that we invest about 1% of GDP in infrastructure in Brazil, it is easy to deduce why the logistics in Brazil costs 35 percent more than in the United States. In agricultural commodities, where we should supposedly be very competitive due our favorable climate, we lose our competitive advantage when considering that our product has a so called Cost Brazil, which must be added. The detail is that commodity by definition has no comparative difference in terms of quality, i.e., it is acquired for a lower price, and when we add all expenditures, costs and expenses, our products have no competitiveness in the markets we attend. Beside the infrastructure issues, we still have the bureaucratic aspect, or the bureaucracy not intelligent as some like to point out. The complexity and lack of standardization of processes make even more necessary the use of resources. Add to this misappropriation and the deep crisis in which we are immersed. By reducing the activity level, the damage caused by the poor infrastructure also falls, because bottlenecks will be less intense, frequent and visible. I’m not preaching the chaos, because it is already a fact, but if Government really think we are able to grow at the rate of 5% p.y. they are wrong, mainly because investments in infrastructure do not happen overnight. They depend on several factors, such as permits, expropriations, as well as the execution time itself. The citizen in turn, lacks involvement to take seriously an agenda with claims, requirements, designs and conditions for improving our country competitiveness and bringing more wealth by selling our products in the international market as China does, rather than waiting for the depreciation of the Real to resolve our lack of competitiveness. It is worth highlighting that the world economy has grown as a whole over the past year, and Brazil shrank. According to the World Bank, the logistics performance in Brazil has declined only in recent years, in other words, we were best positioned in 2010 and 2012 surveys, and now we hold the 65th position in a ranking of 160 countries, and just remembering we are the 7th economy. Obviously there is something wrong! When analyzing the possibility of doing business, the same World Bank presented its annual survey and, compared with our neighbors in Latin America and Caribbean, we are well behind Colombia (34th in the ranking) and just behind the Nicaragua (119th in the ranking), ahead only of Guyana, Argentina, Granada, Bolivia, Suriname, Haiti and Venezuela. Believing that Brazilian Government complies with its obligation as a State and that we are collecting the results of good governance is a total lack of knowledge and lack of citizenship, because it’s time for us to turn against the system and demand a State policy for infrastructure and not a Politics state and interests of a few, as it is today.
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