Frontier Security and The New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project

作者：João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho · 发表于：Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 年份：1990 · DOI：10.1007/978-1-349-21068-8_7 · 被引用次数：31 · 研究领域：Rural Development and Agriculture、Urban Development and Societal Issues

There are many government projects and programmes for Amazonia — the Plan for National Integration (PIN), POLAMAZONIA, PROBOR, POLONOROESTE, and the Greater Carajás Programme (PGC), amongst others — whose roots go back to the 1970s at a different moment in Brazil’s economic and political history, but whose consequences are felt up to the present time. They derive from a diversity of circumstances, of funding sources and executive institutions, generally expressing the interests both of those who control the Brazilian economy and of their overseas partners. The assumptions and directives of modernisation theory are advanced in the hope that the principles of a market economy will gradually come to characterise settlement of the interior. Thus, agricultural and agroindustrial activities are emphasised, along with a concern for indicators of economic efficiency and the balancing of migratory flows, in the hope of reconciling these economic goals with social programmes of directed assistance to small farmers. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.