Minister Simone Tebet visits the IBGE and discusses project about South American integration routes
January 29, 2024 06h25 PM | Last Updated: January 29, 2024 09h46 PM
The Minister of Planning and Budget (MPO), Simone Tebet, met with the IBGE board of directors today, 29, in order to discuss the Work Plans of the Ministry and of the Institute for 2024, besides the promotion of cooperative actions in the future, such as the 5 Integration Routes of Brazil with South American countries.
According to the Minister, the actions and works of the Integration Routes “have been entirely designed considering the available budget. The Route is linked to the Federal Government’s PAC (Growth Acceleration Program) and it is part of the Ministry of Communication’s work, under the connectivity category. It also relates to Public Security, within the Ministry of Justice, to the Ministry of Ports and Airports, the Ministry of Transportation, and so on,” said the minister.
The Minister highlighted the role of the IBGE to collect data in border areas. “The IBGE is a fundamental element because now we can listen to the sectors in border states and collect data, combine these data with what we have. We depart from the work done by the Institute this year [in the Census]. Based on this listening to the interior of Brazil, we will show the Federal Government is not focused on the coastal areas, but on the country as a whole. Integrated development means a guarantee of employment and income to our neighboring countries, and mainly, to our Brazilian people.”
The president of the IBGE, Marcio Pochmann, reinforced the relevance of the Institute in the integration of the Brazilian territory, and its ability to coordinate necessary tasks. “In the meeting with Minister Tebet and her entourage, it was once more possible to reaffirm the prominent position of the Institute in Geosciences, Statistics, and data. It is in this respect that we manage to bring together all the tasks regarding official data and non-official ones in need of certification, methodological homogeneity, and comparability with those from different Institutions working in the same fields.”
Mr. Pochmann also mentioned the importance of salaries and career improvements as measures of value. “We had the opportunity to speak to the Minister about the necessary adequacy of our careers to the target activities performed by the IBGE and of having qualified servants to produce information aiming at the development of Brazil. Not Only careers, but salaries are important as well, especially those of temporary Workers who earn very limited wages. That is the agenda the IBGE shares with its workers’ union. We also highlighted the necessity of having the Institute’s budget recomposed in order to meet demands in the Work Plan, which, for the first time, has managed to combine different fields: survey technological development, geosciences, dissemination, the executive segment of the IBGE.”
5 South American Integration Routes
The project integration of countries in South American, managed by the Ministry of Planning and Budget, consists of five regional integration routes with the objective of expanding trade and interaction between the different producers from countries in the regions. The first one is the Route of the Guyana Island, including the state of Amapá and Roraima, besides part of the territories of Amazonas and Pará, linked to Guyana, French Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. The second one is the Multimodal Manta-Manaus Route, which encompasses the state of Amazonas and parts of Roraima, Amapá and Pará, connected by a river to Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.
The third one is Route of the Rondon Quadrant, formed by the states of Acre and Rondônia and the western portion of Mato Grosso (in Brazil), connected to Bolivia and Peru. Capricorn Route, the fourth one, includes three states: Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná and Santa Catarina, linked, by multiple routes, to Paraguay, Argentina and Chile.
The fifth route, in the southern part of the continent, is Porto Alegre-Coquimbo, encompassing Rio Grande do Sul, connected to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. There will be a total of 124 construction works, including different modes of transportation, linked to PAC and within the Brazilian budget.
