A Política agrícola e o desenvolvimento regional no Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This study aims to analyze how rural credit has influenced the regional and productive development of municipalities that depend on this benefit, as agricultural policy has an important role in develolpment of brasilian society and, over time, agriculture has become a strategic sector in our country. For this, the behavior of rural credit offered in 2005, 2010 and 2012 is evaluated, identifying whether the increase in rural credit has benefited regional development and whether agricultural policy is contributing to the formation of regional development clusters, using the Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). The idea is to analyze the possible existence of spatial autocorrelation, to verify whether a variable from a given location influences the same (or another) characteristic in a geographically close (neighbor) location. The results show the existence of a positive autocorrelation between rural credit and regional development, and over the years analyzed there was an evolution in the number of municipalities with low economic development, dependent on the agricultural sector, which received high values of rural credit, indicating a possible policy to benefit regions that needed to advance in development through greater rural credit concession.