A atuação do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID) no planejamento urbano de João Pessoa-PB: uma análise a partir do programa João Pessoa sustentável

Abstract

The city government of João Pessoa, Paraíba, through international financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)/Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI), is implementing its Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development Program, popularly known as the Sustainable João Pessoa Program. In light of this situation, the city has become indebted by taking out a US$100 million loan from the IDB, the dissemination of urban development and sustainability agendas through the ICES, and the formation of new relationships between the global and local in João Pessoa. In this sense, in light of the Sustainable João Pessoa Program, this research aims to examine the role of the IDB in the urban planning of the capital of Paraíba, seeking to understand how global processes and agendas are translated according to the interactions established between the IDB and the City Government of João Pessoa. To achieve the proposed objective, the methodology is based on bibliographical and documentary research, focusing on scientific productions, theories, concepts and themes from specialized literature, and on the other hand, on normative documents, reports and technical studies within the scope of the IDB, the ICES and the João Pessoa Sustainable Program. The results point towards the understanding that the IDB is not only a financier, but an active agent that shapes urban planning in João Pessoa, promoting neoliberal agendas that facilitate capital accumulation and urbanization in accordance with market interests and real estate speculation. The Bank, in turn, does not act exclusively as an external agent with its own interests, but rather, under the mediation of the city government and the elites that operate in the local real estate market, sharing interests and producing contextually unique relationships.