Uma nova política de desenvolvimento regional nos governos petistas? O Nordeste e a questão regional brasileira.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study the limits of the “Política Nacional de Desenvolvimento Regional” of the PT governments, with the double interest of evaluating the scope of the policy within which it proposes, and also show the limits of the policy itself. In order to reach the objective, we carried out a vast bibliographical review on different aspects of the Brazilian regional question and the regional development policies of the different periods mobilizing the theoretical reference for understanding the historical movement. Directly addressing our research object – the regional development policies of the PT governments – we have made a critical reading of the various documents produced by the Ministry of National Integration with the policy proposals. We also did an mapping in electronic newspapers in search of updated information that could give us clues about the progress of these policies, like the political dilemmas within the Ministry of Integration. And finally a survey of data of an economic and social nature, as well as Northeaster GDP in the Brazilian GDP, level of Unemployment, level of illiteracy, among others, in an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of these policies by mapping what has actually progressed and what has not left the paper. The results show us that the expansion and modernization of the infrastructure and regional logistics in general have been delayed and has not fulfilled the role for which they were intended. It is also perceived lack of motivation, of interest of classes for policy to be firm, the macroeconomic policy adopted by the government, serves the interests of the hegemonic fraction in the power bloc - the great international and national financial capital - imposes limits to the policies of development. And the belief in institutions to solve the dilemmas of the Northeaster population prevents the perception that the reproduction of the poverty conditions of the subaltern classes is related to the maintenance of the power of the local dominant classes and that the Northeaster backwardness is part of the process of uneven development of peripheral capitalism itself, and its relation to the national division of work, and the international division of work that Brazil is subjected to.