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

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ID13103751
AutoresRichard Randolph (0000-0002-2142-9805, RAND Corporation, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume4
Fascículo3
Páginas271-283
Data de publicação2019-02-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArea Development and Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2379-2949 • E-ISSN: 2379-2957
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23792949.2019.1570824
OpenAlexW2914922602
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências 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