Pressupostos e concepções subjacentes aos Planos Plurianuais produzidos nos períodos 2004-2007 e 2020-2023: uma análise de conteúdo de planejamento e desenvolvimento para o Nordeste do Brasil.

Abstract

The design of public policies presupposes planning by political agents that considers, in addition to their ideological orientations, social, economic and environmental factors, in particular the particularities of the region to be prioritized. In the history of Brazil, the planning instruments for national development have little respect for the fiscal sustainability of the government, in addition to having adopted a policy for many years that prioritized the Center-South of the country to the detriment of the Northeast region, which resulted in regional inequality. Intending to privilege equitable development among the country's regions, the original constituent of 1988 inaugurated a new framework of national and budgetary planning with the pluriannual plan and the laws of budgetary guidelines and the annual budget. Faced with this scenario of successive attempts to think about the growth of Brazil, especially in the Northeast region, this study has a qualitative nature, making use of the Content Analysis methodology, defended by Bardin. The analysis brings to the debate all historical landmarks of national planning, with greater emphasis on the multiannual plans in force after the Federal Constitution of 1988, in addition to the main developmental theoretical currents. After providing this conceptual support, the Multi-Year Plans approved for the years 2004-2007 and 2020-2023 were selected for evaluation, according to the public policy conception methodology of Hogwood and Gunn, where an attempt was made to highlight the similarities and differences in their contents and programmatic policy guidelines to then monitor the budgetary execution of some of the development programs targeted at the Northeast Region. Finally, the researcher's conclusions about the study are presented, where it is verified that, despite the institutionalization of planning, the multi-annual plan partially meets the normative expectations, since it presents continuity of certain public policies, but has suffered from budgetary non-execution, especially in the last year of effectiveness, which deprives its nature of a medium-term planning instrument for national public policies.