THE STRATEGIC statements of the PT Government that started in early 2003 reaffirm the need for the country to develop based on the expansion of the domestic market, model that, in your general lines, is guiding internal discussions and political performances of the PT since long. They place, however, two innovations of great meaning: the guarantee of a macroeconomic stability as presupposition of the development and the environmental sustainability as its attribute. The combination of those three elements produces great challenges for the Federal Government and thus could generate inconsistencies among the solutions thinking Brazil as a whole and the peculiar conditions of the Amazon subject. It urges to explain such inconsistencies and to indicate modes to overcome them.
Amazon; Agrarian Issue; Public Policies
