Padrão de desenvolvimento econômico dos municípios no Paraná: disparidade, dispersão e fatores exôgenos

Abstract

This research main objetive is to analyze the profile, the spatiality and the influence of the hexogen factors on the economic development of the municipal districts of Paraná. For that, nineteen economic and social indicators were used that formed the degree of development of each municipal district of Paraná in the year of 2004 and 1979. With those data, the municipal districts were ranked, being classified in developed, in development and underdeveloped, estimating the influence of the state investments (hexogen factors) on the economic development. As a result, three conclusion lines were evidenced: the first refers to the complementary existent among the variables that form the economic development in Paraná and their multiplying effects, fundamental for the process of the economic development. The second conclusion line refers to the process of the economic development of the State, verifying an increase of developed and in development municipal districts, with the formation of two development corridors and of an agglomerate of municipal districts in development in the West area. It was observed that the developed and in development municipal districts are located mainly in the edges of the State, close to the municipal districts that were in development in the year of 1979, signaling a diffusion of the development for proximity. The underdeveloped municipal districts are located mainly in the centre of the State, where there was not practically any municipal district in development in 1979. The third conclusion line refers to the effect that the investments of the State have on the economic development. That association between development and state inversions was delineated through a model of quadratic regression, in which it was verified that the increase in the investments of the State elevates the degree of development of their municipal districts, nonetheless to decreasing rates. This way the action of the State in the development of the municipal districts is relevant, with a larger efficiency of their inversions in the beginning of the development process; however, in the same rate that the State intensifies its investments, making available a better infrastructure, with larger social and economic investments, it is created an internal dynamism that drives the economic development by itself. Also, the influence of the State inversions on the development was regionally analyzed, verifying significant discrepancies as for the meaning of that relationship; nevertheless, independently of the magnitude and of the format of the relationship among those variables, the government of the State has a relevant participation in the economic development of the municipal districts of Paraná. And it should consider which form will be its performance in each area with the intention of not wasting either efforts or resources, promoting, indeed, a development