Localização geográfica e efeitos aglomerativos da indústria na região Nordeste do Brasil: concentração industrial e desenvolvimento econômico regional entre os anos 1995-2005

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the phenomena intrinsic to the dynamics of industrialization in the Northeast region and to demonstrate the specifics of the industrial structure of the states that comprise it from the time of trade liberalization in the 1990s, from the perspective of industrial agglomeration factors and regional economic development. The research methodology used was literature review, along with data analysis offered by official institutions based in the manufacturing industry. The study concludes that Brazil's Northeast Region had only movements in the domestic industry with the specialized diversification of some states and concentration of the number of industries industry in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco and Ceará, with direct effect of this configuration the opposite behavior to that presented by the national industry, reducing the number of jobs and their participation in national quantitative when all other regions increased. Finally, it demonstrates that fans states of mono-industry eventually reverse its profits in shipments to other states, creating a new competitive market off its axis. In this regard, remains proven that private investment of large oligopolistic groups the state would directly for new developments in the Southeast and Midwest.