Redefinindo Prioridades dos Planos de Infraestrutura no Estado do Pará

The report highlights a critical deficit in basic infrastructure—including sanitation, health, education, and connectivity—across the state of Pará. It finds that residents in the influence areas of planned large-scale logistics projects suffer from even worse access to these services than the state average. The authors argue that the historical focus on commodity-export logistics has neglected local needs and suggest using compensations from large projects to fund essential local infrastructure.

• Basic sanitation is extremely deficient throughout Pará, with 52% of households lacking access to the water network—three times the national average. Regarding sewage, 69% of households dispose of waste inadequately, primarily through common pits (48%) or directly into watercourses (21%).
• Access to 4G mobile telephony, high schools, and health centers is highly unequal, concentrated in large urban centers. Approximately 16.9% of the population (1.35 million people) lives 10km or more from the nearest 4G antenna, 21% (1.7 million people) live over 10km from high schools, and 14% (1.13 million people) live over 10km from health centers.
• Infrastructure gaps are most severe in small municipalities, the western part of the state, and on Marajó Island. In contrast, less than 2% of the population in the Belém metropolitan area lives more than 10km away from 4G antennas, schools, and health centers.
• Populations living within the influence areas of four planned large-scale projects—Ferrogrão, BR-230, BR-163, and BR-155/158—have worse access to basic services than the typical state resident. The BR-230 area is particularly critical, where over 90% of residents do not collect sewage properly and more than half live over 10km from 4G antennas, schools, and health centers.
• The report argues that large-scale logistics projects focused on commodity exports have failed to generate sufficient economic benefits to improve local infrastructure over the last three decades. It proposes using compensations paid by these large projects to fund local quality-of-life infrastructure as a way to overcome fiscal constraints.

APA

Bragança, A., & Morais, M. (2022). Redefinindo Prioridades dos Planos de Infraestrutura no Estado do Pará. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Redefinindo-Prioridades-dos-Planos-de-Infraestrutura-no-Estado-do-Para.pdf

Chicago

Bragança, Arthur, and Mateus Morais. Redefinindo Prioridades dos Planos de Infraestrutura no Estado do Pará. Climate Policy Initiative, 2022. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Redefinindo-Prioridades-dos-Planos-de-Infraestrutura-no-Estado-do-Para.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{bragana2022redefinindo, author = {Bragança, Arthur and Morais, Mateus}, title = {{Redefinindo Prioridades dos Planos de Infraestrutura no Estado do Pará}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2022}, month = apr, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Redefinindo-Prioridades-dos-Planos-de-Infraestrutura-no-Estado-do-Para.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }