O desenvolvimento do APL de confecções: um estudo socioeconômico sobre o agreste pernambucano

Abstract

This work analyzes the main socio-economic impacts caused by the implementation of the Productive Arrangement Clothes Location Pernambuco’s Agrest, this scenario of great importance to the development process of the region. The study is based on the focus on the concepts of Regional Development, Local Productive Arrangement as a development tool and the Northeastern landscape features in the 60 and beginnings of change in the economic sector in the region. For this, the methodology consists of collecting information and bibliographical data of recent studies of organs such as IBGE, SEBRAE and DIEESE for formation of the socioeconomic profile of the studied sector. The results show a considerable growth in Pernambuco region driven by the textile sector, high informality rate presented as a result of family entrepreneurship in force, as well as the exploitation of certain factors that motivated the rugged region of Pernambuco to abandon agriculture as the main source of getting income, promoting clothing manufacturer activity as main activity.