Nordeste brasileiro : desenvolvimento e planejamento regional

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study the intervention of the State in the Brazilian Northeast, from 1950 to 1985, specifying the form of planned intervention. As the process of industrialization of the country advanced, the State played a distinct role in the Northeast in relation to the Center-South. While in the areas that stood out for the coffee production and soon after the expansion of its market and the beginning of the industrialization, the State had a dynamizing role of the industrial process in the Northeast, state participation was limited to build a series of public works to accumulate water in order to combat the droughts, with which it reinforced the power of the oligarchies of the region. While in the first region the state progresses, to direct participation in the productive process (steel, alkalis and mechanical industry, especially), in the Northeast its action will be characterized by assistance.