No dizer das vozes locais: revisitando a experiência de Montes Claros/MG com incentivos fiscais federais nos anos 1960-1980

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the experience of Montes Claros/MG with the tax incentive policy of Sudene from the 1950, from secondary data and reports of the relevant social actors. It was opted for the use of a descriptive research for the purposes, field research for the methods and the case study as research technique. Were interviewed 40 representatives of relevant local institutions. It was concluded that the spatial redistribution of economic activity from the macropolitics of tax incentives disregarded local levels of interaction between the different agents and created unexpected effects. In the analysis of this case, an unexpected element of federal tax incentives policy was the lack of preparation of the local business community to properly manage federal resources directed to the municipality. This resulted in a series of experiences of failure in the region that gave rise to the “cemetery of industries”.