ID: 14875
Authors:
Marcos Antonio de Melo.
Source:
Revista de Administração Pública, v. 18, n. 1, p. 111-118, January-March, 1984. 8 page(s).
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
In sum, this paper has intended to show the widening of economic disparities between the Northeast and the country's more developed regions, emphasizing its main causes, as well as some estructural prevailing impasses, and indicating also some measures to overcome them. It is to be taken finally into aceaunt the fact that the implementation of a new policy aiming at the development of the Northeast and conducive to a shortening of the interregional economic distance must necessarily be based upon political and institutional decentralization. That means that a provision of political power to the Sudene is needed for the coordination of federal investment in the region, starting from an autonomous administrative and financiai conception. On the other hand, it is fundamentally important to begin anew the elaboration of Directive Plans (Planos Diretores) and that such plans be approved by the National Congress. We believe that planning as an instrument of change may still provide the region with developmental choices, not the type of planning based on a supposed technical neutrality, but a pluralistic planning, capable of mobilizing the enterpreneurial and political classes, the unions, the university and so on, in short, planning to create a collective conscience around regional problems and to promote their linkage to the national universe. In this way the Sudene should be revitalized, to perform its leading role in the equating of socio-economic problems, supported by the governments of member-states. We mean, by that, that decentralization of planning, especially in the present stage of democratic opening, is an eminently political issue, presuming a deconcentration of power at national level, since this condition and an equalltarian distribution of income are interdependent phenomena. In this sense, the Northeastem issue transcends the regional field, to become a national problem.
