A execução do Programa de Alívio da Pobreza Rural do Banco Mundial em ambientes periféricos: o caso do Nordeste brasileiro

Abstract

Ever since the re-democratization period that happened between 1980-1990, the international relations enacted by subnational brazilians governments, known as Paradiplomacy, has challenged the 1988’s Civil Constitution. Although it is the Union’s exclusivity to abide deals and contracts with international organizations, brazilian states and counties make use of paradiplomatic actions in order to remedy basic needs (economic, social and cultural). However, this phenomenon is not unraveled at the same pace in different localities. Well-developed regions, such as the South and Southeast, are prone to direct internationalization, while peripherical regions like North and Northeast struggle with poor institutional support, characterizing peripherical environments. In specific terms, the Northeast has been focused in reversing these disparities. Composing the World Bank as a member of the Rural Poverty Relief Program (RPRP), local leaders have sought to search for financial aid in international organs for the infrastructure development and technical counselling of the region’s states. Taking this in to consideration, the present work had as an objective to analyze what were the results of the RPRP in the region. As a pragmatic characteristic, the work focused in four programs of the umbrella project, located in the states of Ceará (Projeto São José), Bahia (Bahia Produtiva) and Paraíba (Cooperar PB). For this, a mapping of the paradiplomatic capabilities of each respective state was produced, identified its modus operandi. With the purpose of clarifying the projects’ data, a series of semi structured interviews occurred with public managers that coordinate these practices. Thus, allowing the observation of the diverse fields of the Northeast region and that peripherical Paradiplomacy occurs via the action of political leaders (governors and local managers).