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

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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

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  • Hamilton Tolosa, 2003. "The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 37(3), pages 479-500, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:anresc:v:37:y:2003:i:3:p:479-500
    DOI: 10.1007/s00168-003-0166-5
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