Potencialidades e características socioeconômicas do município de Umuarama - Paraná de 2000 à 2019

Abstract

The first decades of the XX century are marked by profound transformations in the municipality of Umuarama, as the municipality has become one of the great engines of regional development in the northwestern mesoregion of the state of Paraná. Therefore, this work aims to study the characteristics that determine the level of regional development of Umuarama, in the period between 2000 and 2019. As for the methodology, regional analysis indicators will be used, such as the locational quotient, specialization coefficient, coefficient of restructuring and Shift-Share analysis, and the regional development indicator, through factor analysis. The municipality of Umuarama has a level of development that made it become a metropolitan city in 2014. These characteristics of a pole city will be discussed in this dissertation, the analysis of regional development indicators will demonstrate all the dynamism of the municipality, which makes one of the main cities in the state of Paraná to raise funds for the necessary investments to generate employment and income. This fact that throughout this work will be presented the main theories of economic development. Seeking in the development of the work to answer the main questions about: The potential and socioeconomic characteristics of the municipality of Umuarama- Paraná from 2000 to 2019.