TERRITORIAL PLANNING IN FRANCE AND BRAZIL: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH ABSTRACT

Abstract

The article makes a comparison between the territorial approaches of the public policies in Brazil and in France, until the 80's and from this date to the present day, with emphasis on the Brazilian National Development Policy (PNDR) and the State-region plan contract (CPER). Although these two countries have different political and economic formations, the centrality that the theme occupies in the French state agenda and the intersectoral approach contrasts with the marginality of the policies developed by the Brazilian government. The text is based on the hypothesis that, in Brazil, the construction of territorial policies focused on the reduction of regional inequalities has, in its recent history, faced difficulties due to the absence of a national project of a structured development, aggravated by the process of clientelistic fragmentation present in the structure of the Brazilian State.