Regional development policies and the challenge to reduce spatial inequalities in Brazil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13103751
AutoresRichard Randolph (0000-0002-2142-9805, RAND Corporation, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen4
Número3
Páginas271-283
Fecha de publicación2019-02-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea Development and Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2379-2949 • E-ISSN: 2379-2957
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23792949.2019.1570824
OpenAlexW2914922602
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas6

This paper argues that current discussions in Brazil about national regional development policies should be abandoned for now and attention directed towards the regional development agenda at other scales and through other institutional arrangements. More specifically, it offers an understanding of the apparent ‘impossibility’ of creating a national regional policy. After opting for a critical neo-Gramscian conception of the term ‘governance’, the paper argues that a critical appreciation of the conditions needed to concretize this conception of governance leads to the conclusion that the ‘feasibility’ of governance, which requires the ‘real’ inclusion of underprivileged social forces, may depend on the scale at which governance is pursued and on a ‘dialectical overcoming’ of local power to rescue regional agendas

Corporate governance · Dialectic · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Impossibility · Inclusion (mineral · Inequality · Management · Political science · Power (physics · Regional development · Regional science · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Policy · Social and Economic Solidarity · Urban Development and Societal Issues