Minister argues that decreased poverty and misery depends on the fight against regional inequalities
The Minister of Planning and Budget, said this Monday (31.mar.2025) wanting to double the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita from Brazil by 2050. According to her, the Brazilian economy is aging and it is necessary to reduce regional inequality.
As showed the Poder360the per capita GDP of Brazil had the. Tebet attended the event “Dialogues for the construction of the Brazil 2050 Strategy”held in São Paulo by the Ministry of Planning and Budget.
“We want the per capita GDP by bending by 2050. It’s a huge challenge. It’s not simple, but what matters is people having income. It’s not just the country in a concentration of income. We want everyone to make money, but we need to look at the pyramid in the bottom.”declared the minister.
Among the challenges of the country, Tebet presented the following topics:
- High income inequality and high poverty rates;
- Low productivity and investment capacity;
- Early deindustrialization;
- high rates of deforestation;
- low competitive insertion in global economic networks;
- high informality and low income;
- increasing pressures on the pension system;
- low educational performance in international evaluations;
- housing deficit and lack of proper sanitation;
- High rates of homicide and growth of organized crime.
According to Tebet, tax reform has been approved and will help reduce inequality and increase productivity. She said the growth of per capita GDP is concentrated in the Southeast, South and Midwest regions.
“This is Brazil today, Brazil of the complexities. A Brazil that is a true continent and has an absurd regional inequality. There will be no decrease in poverty, misery and social inequality if we do not face the very serious regional inequalities of Brazil.”he declared.
For the minister, Brazil has been in 20 years “skating”In the process of reducing regional inequality. Argued that demography is an important theme for plans and goals for 2050.
“Brazil is aging […] People don’t want to have a child. The problem is not aging. It’s just that we are getting older bad, because we are aging without getting enriched as a country, unlike Europe, which has enriched before ”he said.
On the side of the positive aspects, the minister quoted:
- macroeconomic stability;
- Advanced Financial System;
- large consumer market;
- diverse energy matrix and the cleanest in the world;
- Rich biodiversity and abundance of natural resources;
- modern and competitive agribusiness;
- SUS (Unified Health System);
- Universalization of elementary school and expansion of access to basic education;
- Bolsa Familia and its effects on the reduction of extreme poverty;
- consolidated democratic institutions.
