A estratégia nacional da redução da pobreza na Guiné-Bissau (DENARP): expressão de uma revolução anti-imperialista inacabada.

Abstract

This thesis is the result of a political evaluation of the Socioeconomic Development Program of Guinea-Bissau, called “Document of National Strategy for Poverty Reduction (DENARP).” It refers to the theoretical-methodological aspect of dialectical historical materialism, particularly in the categories of totality, history, and contradiction. Its objective is to recuperate, on a theoretical level, the strategic actions designed within the scope of the DENARP, with a view to measurements towards the development of the country, including the participation of society and the fight against the evils caused by poverty. It seeks, therefore, to identify the strategies, choices, and social subjects’ decisions involved aiming to verifying to what extent they express the potential to guarantee or hinder the success or failure of this Plan. It takes official documents as references that materialize research on the formation of society and refer to the current situation in the country, as well as bibliographical or theoretical-analytical sources related to the cycle of public policies. Furthermore, it considers that the Plan under analysis constitutes a space of dispute in the country and of contradiction in the global capitalist context. In this sense, even though it presents a coherent structure, it does not seem capable of facing, as it intends, the great challenges of the country in the determined time. Finally, it concludes that the narrative presented by DENARP about the participation of different sectors of the State and civil society as development partners is not consistent with the history of ethnic struggles, conflicts, and history of authoritarian governance in the country, seeming to maintain coherence, in fact, with the need to legitimize the theoretical body of the Program, which links development with economic growth and external dependence.