Desenvolvimento econômico regional : o estado de Sergipe, desafios e oportunidades no mercado de crédito

Abstract

This paper deals with the study of regional economic development, sustainable development and participation of the State, through the Development Banks. To this end, there is a reinterpretation of the main currents in development economics, since the classical economists to the concepts of regional development with state intervention. It presents a history of Development Banks in the world, its characterization, its goals and the relationship between its performance and economic development. In Brazil, state intervention in 1950 led to the creation of Banco do Nordeste do Brazil S.A. (BNB) and the Constitutional Financing Fund of the Northeast (FNE), which, through the action of productive credit subsidized and specialized technical assistance, mainly, appear responsible for significant increases in development indicators in the region occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, changing its economic structure. As a complement, is made an approach about the economic outlook of the state of Sergipe. From an examination of the productive sectors more or less dynamic local economy, their strengths and gaps open up prospects for the study of development through the prism both macroeconomic, in the form of planning and decision-making in public policy, including subsidized credit, as under the microeconomic approach in the form of opportunities and challenges for the banking credit market in general and public bank lending in particular.