ASSIGNMENT 4
Autor: Prof. Anderson | Publicado: 2011-09-29T05:04:00-07:00

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ASSIGNMENT 4


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Corruption plays spoilsport in Brazil's World Cup campaign
RIO DE JANEIRO: It is a project that should symbolize the transformational benefits of hosting the 2014 World Cup - a sleek new monorail train gliding above Brazil's steamy Amazon city of Manaus. But Athayde Ribeiro da Costa has a different take on it. With just under 1,000 days before the first ball is kicked, the chief public prosecutor in Amazonas state sees the monorail as part of a trend of overspending and poor planning as Brazil rushes to make up for a slow start to its preparations. "We are very worried about overspending," he said. "We are in favor of the Cup -- it can bring lots of opportunities for people and help resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, but this can't be done at the expense of misuse of public funds or corruption." 

Concerns are mounting that Brazil's push to speed up its preparations for the soccer tournament risks fueling corruption and an explosion in costs dwarfing other "mega-events." Last year's World Cup cost South Africa about $4 billion but Brazil's official estimate already stands at about $13 billion, including transport projects, stadium construction and airport expansions, making it certain to be the most expensive in history. President Dilma Rousseff spoke in March of 33 billion reais ($18 billion ) in World Cup investments and some private estimates are already way higher, putting the final bill at an eye-popping $60 billion in one case -- bigger than neighboring Uruguay's annual economic output. Legal cases are proliferating as prosecutors like Da Costa investigate suspected overspending and abuses of bidding processes. 

Da Costa heads a group of 12 prosecutors focusing on World Cup cases -- one for each host city -- and says there are more than 80 civil investigations under way throughout Brazil. A Sao Paulo federal judge this month ordered work suspended on the expansion of Sao Paulo's Guarulhos international airport, saying that bidding rules had been ignored under the excuse of urgency. 

Another judge overturned that decision. The legal cases could help save Brazilian taxpayers a lot of money but also risk causing yet more delays to a schedule that is already pushing the limits of just-in-time readiness. "If you make it more transparent you might slow it down, and therefore increase the costs," said Christopher Gaffney, a visiting professor of urbanism at Rio's Fluminense Federal University. "If you don't make it more transparent , you're guaranteed to increase the costs because everyone's going to have their hand in the till." Spiraling costs are a familiar ritual of World Cups and Olympic Games. In this case, though, they are sharpened by some very Brazilian problems -- endemic corruption, bureaucratic and legal hurdles and high construction costs driven by a lack of capacity in its robust economy.
Fonte: The Economic Times&nbsp;   QUESTÃO ÚNICA:
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