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Event assembling the local business sector will point at solutions for the most important needs identified in a previous meeting

Source: Gazeta do Povo
Author: Cristina Rios

The state’s key business sector leaders will meet this morning to discuss the creation of an integrated structural development plan for Paraná. It is an initiative of the Future 10 Permanent Development Forum Paraná. The event will take place at Cietep and should gather 200 people including regional leaders and class association representatives that are participating in the project under the supervision of the Paraná Communication Network (RCP).

The discussions are a follow up to the Future 10 Forum held in 2005 that mobilized 5,070 regional leaders for a year of discussions on the future of Paraná in the next 10 years.

 In today’s event a study including solutions for the principal needs appointed during the Future 10 Forum will be presented. Among them are heavy economic concentration, deficiencies in infrastructure – particularly road, railroad, and port transportation – as well as obstacles and opportunities in areas like the environment, energy, housing, sanitation, education and investment capacity. According to Rogério Mainardes, coordinator of the Forum’s executive committee, the goal is to create a kind of chart with which to guide the development of Paraná in the next 10 years.

The document that will be presented during the meeting and it is based on six guidelines that will be evaluated by the participants, will provide regional and sectoral details and serve as a basis for the preparation of private, institutional, and cooperative action programs. The material was developed by a team under the coordination of economist Belmiro Valverde Jobim Castor, and it incorporates several suggestions and ideas presented by the institutions that attended the Future 10 Forum. The six guidelines are: recreating conditions for economic dynamism; managing land occupation dynamics; reinforcing the infrastructure; developing human capital; coping with environmental problems and improving the environmental juridical-institutional apparatus; and reinforcing institutional capability.