The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration

Hamilton Tolosa ()

The Annals of Regional Science, 2003, vol. 37, issue 3, 479-500

Abstract: This paper explores whether the Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region, an area with 36 million and accounting for one-third of Brazil's GNP, can successfully integrate into the global economy. Analysis of private investment projects in different sub-regions over the period 1995–2002 suggests that most of the investments are in high-tech or average technology rather than in low technology projects. Decentralization into the Paraiba Valley appears to be taking place rapidly. However, in the region as a whole, severe imbalances between the Rio and the São Paulo remain, and these are an obstacle to the region's attempt to climb up the global urban hierarchy rankings. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2003

Date: 2003
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