ABSTRACT
This chapter examines both explicit policies and implicit policies. The foundation for more systematic intervention in matters affecting population redistribution, was established via the creation of State agencies for the purpose of defining and implementing policies in the social domain. Government influence on population redistribution during 1930–1950 appears to have operated in two contradictory ways: Explicit policies were generally directed to opening up segments of the country’s vast interior frontier, while implicit policies favored rural-urban migration and concentration. In terms of explicit policies, the Brazilian government promoted the rapid occupation of the Parana frontier in the 1930s and attempted to channel migrant flows towards the Center-West region in the 1940s. Social gains and income redistribution were explicitly postponed as part of the attempt to capitalize on a favorable international context for rapid economic growth. The main explicit forms of State intervention in matters of population distribution include policies under the following headings: regional development; urban; colonization; and internal migration.
