The Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast (
semi-arid climate. Sudene was created by suggestion of economist
Celso Furtado, one of the leading intellectuals of Brazil, who was the agency's first director.
Premise
Furtado's premise was that the semi-arid climate of the Northeast was an environmental reality against which it would be very unproductive to fight – despite governmental action to take water to that region – and that state poverty reduction programs should thus aim at using the existing natural advantages of the area – namely, its availability of labor – and promote industrialization instead of the region's traditional economic focus, which was on agriculture and livestock.
Actions
The agency's first steps were to speed up the construction of
hydroelectric dams in the
São Francisco River, followed by governmental incentives for the creation of heavy industry projects, such as the
Camaçari Petrochemical Complex, in the state of
Bahia, and the industrial district of Aratu, in the metropolitan area of
Salvador. Sudene is also responsible for the formation of intermediary products industries: fertilizers production in the state of
Sergipe and a chemicals complex in Salgema, state of
Alagoas. In the state of
Pernambuco, investments concentrated on the metropolitan area of the city of
Recife, with durable goods industries being created in the cities of Jaboatão, Cabo and Paulista. In the state of
Ceará, a new perspective was adopted: Sudene's incentives helped form a textiles industrial area, around the capital of the state,
Fortaleza.
In 1999, Sudene was involved in corruption scandals which led President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1994-2002) to decree its dissolution. In 2002, however, the agency was recreated with the name of Adene - Agency for the Development of the Northeast.
References
The process of industrialization in Recife, Brazil - https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF00845198
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