In this article, the participation of the World Bank in the financing of the Cooperar Plan is studied. Cooperar is a plan to combat poverty, in execution by the Paraíba Government since 1997. In the first part, we focused on the BIRD performance, analyzing the changes ocurred in the strategies applied in the Northeast and to growing participation of that international institution in the financing of development politics for the area. We tried to emphasize the changes occurred in World Bank strategy regarding the financing of projects guided by the idea of rural development, experiences that were fundamental for the improvement of the mechanisms of BIRD performance in Brazil and that constitute precedent elements of the strategy to combat poverty in the Northeast during the decade of 1990. In the second part, the analysis is guided to the Cooperar Project, example of policy to combat poverty in the Northeast, when its origins, its strategy and the level of interference of the World Bank in the implementation of the development strategy are examined.
Poverty; development; State; Paraíba; Northeast