FGV promotes webinar on Amazonas’ new industrial policy

Amazon Dialogues

The objective is to talk about the new industrial policy announced by the Federal Government, which provides R$300 billion to finance neo-industrialization actions until 2026

Manaus (AM) — The fourth season of Diálogos Amazônicos will open this year on February 26th, at 7pm, on the FGV EESP channel, and will address the new industrial policy in Amazonas. The Getúlio Vargas Foundation, through the São Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP), promotes meetings with virtual meetings in the Amazon Diálogos series, a digital platform to discuss with all organized civil society topics of interest to the sustainable socioeconomic development of the Brazilian Amazon .

The objective of this debate is to talk about the new industrial policy announced by the Federal Government, which provides R$300 billion to finance neo-industrialization actions until 2026, with aspirational goals on several fronts, such as for the agro-industry chains, health, well-being of cities, in digital transformation and for the bioeconomy and energy transition, addressing the challenges of putting this plan into practice and its potential impacts on the Brazilian economy.

The webinar will feature the Secretary of Industrial Development, Innovation, Commerce and Services of the MDIC, Uallace Moreira Lima, and the Director of Industrial Development and Economy of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), Rafael Lucchesi.

Márcio Holland, professor and coordinator of the postgraduate course in Finance and Economics and Applied Data Science at FGV EESP, will be moderated. At his side will be Daniel Vargas, professor at FGV EESP, coordinator of the FGV Bioeconomy Observatory and student at the Universities of Cambridge (England) and Bonn (Germany).

The Amazon Diálogos series is sponsored by the Center for Industry of the State of Amazonas (CIEAM), the Union of the Electrical, Electronic and Similar Devices Industry of Manaus (SINAEES), UNICOBA da Amazônia, Chibatão – Navegação e Comércio, DD&L Associate Consultants and the Brazilian Association of Manufacturers of Motorcycles, Mopeds, Mopeds, Bicycles and Similar (Abraciclo).

About CIEAM

The Amazonas State Industry Center (CIEAM) is a business entity with legal personality, linked to the industrial sector, whose objective is to act in a technical and political manner in defense of its members and the principles of the economy based on the Manaus Free Trade Zone ( ZFM).

Implemented by the federal government in 1967, with the aim of providing an economic base in Amazonas and promoting better productive and social integration between all regions of Brazil, the Manaus Free Trade Zone is a successful regional development model that returns to public coffers more than half of the wealth it produces.

Currently, there are 600 companies installed in the Manaus Industrial Pole (PIM), which generate more than 500 thousand jobs, direct and indirect, and guarantee the preservation of 97% of the forest cover in Amazonas. In 2022, it handled more than 177 billion, an increase of 12% compared to the previous year.

*With information from consultancy

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