A Política Nacional de Desenvolvimento Regional (PNDR) e suas contribuições para o Brasil e para a Região Nordeste

Abstract

This work constitutes an exploratory study, carried with the objective of introducing the contributions made by the Regional Development National Policy (PNDR) to the sustainable development of Brazil and the Northeast region. In order to achieve this objective, it was necessary to revisit the entire history of Federal Government interventions in the country and in the Northeast region, to present the development perspectives that underpin the PNDR guidelines, all to finally identify the successes and failures obtained by the PNDR after more than ten years of its implementation. The methodological procedure used in this research for data collection was a bibliographic survey. The selection and analysis of the information considered relevant works within the topic addressed and, in the fourth chapter, more recent publications dealing with the PNDR were prioritized, especially those that highlighted the contributions made to the Northeast region. The results show that the PNDR managed to gather several important trends for the development of the country in its text, innovating in the identification of intraregional heterogeneities, in the multiscale treatment of strategies and in the creation of a new taxonomy of territories. At the same time, it recognizes the failure of the PNDR to establish instruments that enable the implementation of the policy. We can concluded, then, that the PNDR brought a more theoretical and methodological contribution to Brazil and the Northeast than a practical one. Although this policy presents objectives, strategies and guidelines which are fundamental to the sustainable development of the country, much of what was planned remained only in the field of intentionality.