An Analysis of Social Indicators in Brazil after the “Real Plan” (1994) until 2012

Brazil, during the 1990s, went through a period of profound economic and social transformations. Economic openness advocated in the early 1990s, during the government of President Fernando Collor de Melo (1990-1992), marked by a severe economic recession corroborated by blocking monetary assets generated a serious social and police crisis cooperated to the "empeachment"  of the president and demanded a drastic change in relation to economic policy. “The Real Plan”, conceived during the administration of President Itamar Franco (1992-1995) fostered a profound social and economic transformation in the Brazilian economy. Implemented in 1994, “the Real Plan” was crucial for promoting monetary stability and exchange rate of the country. From this plan, considerable improvements in brasilian economic indicators began to be observed, such as: GDP growth, expansion in inflows of foreign capital in the country, the positive evolution of the trade balance and expansion in employment and domestic income. Based on these positive results, the aim of this paper is study the evolution of the social indicators in Brazil after the “Real Plan” in 1994, until the year 2012. The methodologies used for this study are descriptive statistics and literature review. The results showed that the expansion of the economic indicators echoed directly in the improvement of social indicators in Brazil: There was expansion of HDI, improvement in the Gini index by regions, reducing the infant mortality rate, expansion of life expectancy, expansion  of Gross National Income, expanding access to public health, significant reduction of the population in extreme poverty, and increasing access to goods and services by Brazilians.

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