As part of the cycle of webinars planned for this month, the document to be presented in the webinar “The physical infrastructure and its role in the productive integration between South America and Asia Pacific”, on 29 September, is made available.
“This article aims to analyze the potential for integration of South America, particularly the Amazon Development Zone, with Asia Pacific. It starts from the opportunities generated by the great changes, both environmental and economic of East Asia, to assess the impacts that improvements in regional infrastructure can generate to increase the competitiveness and productivity of exports from the states of Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia to the Pacific, via Peruvian ports, and to the west coast of South America. It is considered that the linear repetition in Amacro of the process of territorial and productive occupation that occurred in recent decades in Mato Grosso and Matopiba is not sustainable. The paper proposes that Amacro’s planning should be, at the same time, engaged in post-pandemic recovery efforts compatible with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030, Horizons 2030 (ECLAC) and the debates on the New Green Agreement and it should consider the possibilities of adding value that open up with time savings and the logistical gains of a direct departure from the far west of Brazil to Peruvian ports”. (Available only in Spanish and Portuguese)