Gestão pública e desenvolvimento no estado do Rio de Janeiro: o caso do Programa de Desenvolvimento Local de Piraí

Abstract

The present work analyzed Planning and its relationship with development in the Municipality of Piraí in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The aforementioned municipality is a regional and state reference in terms of planning, despite its small size placing it in a unique situation of limitation for this type of activity. However, the Municipality managed to overcome this limitation by building a planning culture, which got off the ground and led to the execution of relevant projects for a municipality with less than thirty thousand inhabitants. The discussion intersects with the way municipalities are organized within the country's institutional framework. The role of local public policy executors as intermediaries between the state and federal governments and the people. However, we see that it is possible for the municipality to follow an independent path, especially when it stops being an inert reproducer of what is defined (and financed) by the federal and state government.