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The article reviews the development of the main infrastructure aspects (logistics, energy and social and urban) of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) in the period 2007 to 2010. The problem of the study was: how did the PAC contribute to the development of Bahia State? The article demonstrates, through quantitative data, the impact and performance of the PAC for the development of Bahia To realize this quantitative approach, information was extracted from secondary data. It is concluded that on average 76,93% of PAC projects Bahia have not been finalized, but even so, when you correlate it to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), using a regression analysis, before, during and after the year 2007 by 2010, its influence and interference was found in the process of regional development of Bahia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Addressing rural development discussions in Brazil: context and issues of debate. The work analyzes the main theoretical trends and subjects that integrate the recent Brazilian debate about rural development. We agued that the agenda of the rural development in Brazil, on which actively participate scholars, organizations and institutions, have been formulated by the State and the public politics implemented since the beginning of the 1990. Among the factors that had influenced the emergency of the debate about rural development is distinguished the increasing social and political legitimating of family farming and the agrarian reform, the reorientation of the state policies, the increasing sharply political and ideological quarrels with the agribusiness wing and the matters about sustainability. It is also argued that the analytical and interpretative references that have being used by the scholars are still diffuse and varied, but has been capable to influence the policy makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]