This article aims to analyze the close relationship between development and the developmental state as a prerequisite for the formulation of a development agenda in the XXI century. Based on the argument of Evans (2010) that there is no development without developmental state, it is a balance of the international academic literature, especially, first, the increasing complexity of the concept of development, emphasizing the contribution of Sen Armatya . then discusses the importance of creating new state capacities to build the developmental state in the twenty-first century, focusing on the most recent contributions of institutionalist approach of the state. Finally, it is the evaluation of the stresses and challenges to building the developmental state in Brazil in the first decades of the century, attributing particular emphasis on the chronic weakness of the power infrastructure of the Brazilian state. This is the biggest obstacle to the development and implementation of a development project in the country. Another inhibiting factor is the difficulty in forming a broad coalition involving employers and employees around a proposed conciliation toward a new developmental convention.
development; developmentalist state; state capabilities; institutionalist approach the State; coalition entrepreneurs and workers