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The Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), an agency linked to the Ministry of Planning and Budget (MPO), made a series of suggestions for improving the National Policy for Regional Development (PNDR). Coordinated by the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR), the policy is the legal instrument that delimits the action of the Federal Government in search of reducing economic and social inequalities between or within regions, through the creation of development opportunities that result in economic growth, income generation and improvement in the quality of life of the population.
To make suggestions, Ipea carried out extensive research on the PNDR, which evaluated, for example, the application of resources from the Constitutional and Development Funds throughout the national territory and the regional development plans for the North, Northeast and Midwest, regions considered priorities by the policy.
One of the recommendations presented based on the Ipea studies is the need to strengthen other sectors in the application of regional funds. With a large concentration of credits in the agricultural sector, one of the measures would be to diversify the use of these resources by the industrial sector, for example.
“One of the strengths of the PNDR lies in the resources available from the Constitutional Financing Funds of the North (FNO), Northeast (FNE) and Center-West (FCO), managed by regional public banks”, points out the Ipea technician and coordinator of the research, Aristides Monteiro Neto. “As availability can already be considered reasonable, on average 2% of GDP in each region, resources need to be oriented to finance, alongside existing activities, other chosen activities, to increase the regional income multiplier. In particular, a process of productive renewal in industry, in modern activities of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and even in the improvement of conditions for the modernization of agriculture”, he highlighted.
“It is an interesting suggestion to guide our directives and orientations, which are taken as proposals for the annual application of the funds”, highlights the national secretary of Policies for Regional and Territorial Development of the MIDR, Adriana Melo.
“The studies carried out on the application of funds in the territory brought relevant data for the Superintendence's performance and will be the subject of a study to subsidize the application of the Constitutional Financing Fund of the Northeast, the FNE”, comments the superintendent of the Superintendence of Development of the Northeast, Daniel Cabral.
Ipea also highlighted the need to improve the regional development plans, which were produced by the Development Superintendencies of the Northeast (Sudene), the Center-West (Sudeco) and the Amazon (Sudam).
This work has been carried out on a regular basis by the three superintendencies, which carried out public consultations for the review of the regional development plans. The MIDR also listened to Brazilian society with the aim of rebuilding instances of dialogue and collecting contributions for the revision of the PNDR, in a transparent and participatory manner.
“We are consolidating the suggestions, which were very relevant for the improvement of the policy, and the next steps are to send a new draft of the decree with the contributions of society for publication in the Civil House and to establish the Chamber of Regional Development, which will govern the PNDR, also coordinated by the Civil House”, explains secretary Adriana Melo.
Another Ipea suggestion, according to the secretary, is the need, with the entry of the plans in Congress, to advance in dissemination strategies, promoting debate in the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, so that they are appreciated and approved as law.
Adriana Melo also points out that the diagnoses presented by Ipea show greater capillarity of Constitutional Funds in the regions served by the PNDR, contradicting criticism from control bodies about the concentration of these funds in the capitals.
“Ipea removes this myth and states that these funds are spread throughout the territory and there are small and medium-sized industrial agglomerations, which are standing out in medium-sized cities, which dialogues directly with the objective of strengthening these cities in the three regions ”, explains the secretary.
