NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE: STRATEGIC NEED FOR BRAZIL

Abstract

Brazil has accumulated setbacks not only from its intrinsic productive weaknesses, but also from its incapacity to define its role in the world, particularly due to the inexistence of a national grand strategy in the country, especially an economic strategy capable of promoting, in an integrated and competitive way, its potentialities in the international relations. In order to cope with this serious lack of economic direction, the country should create and develop a mechanism to guide and build consensus to improve its international economic integration. A National Economic Intelligence (IEE) and a coordinated, dynamic, adaptable and transparent National Economic Intelligence System (SIE), which takes advantage of minimally consolidated experiences of economic actors already members of the Brazilian Intelligence System (Sisbin) and that integrates other key agencies to economic policies of the country, such as the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) of the Ministry of Planning, Development and Management (MPOG), together with the strengthening of the IEE area under the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), the central organ of the Sisbin, may be important components of this mechanism.