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This paper which is a sequence of previous works (Lemos e Diniz, 2000 and Diniz, 1993) attempts to analyze in an introductory and comparative way the aggregate competitiveness of the major Brazilian metropolitan areas. It is theoretically based on two fundamental concepts of urban economics: agglomeration gains and agglomeration diseconomies. With such a goal, this paper was divided into four parts. In the first part, a specific methodology for comparative analysis of competitiveness was developed, based on some theoretical premises. In the second part, the adequate levels of regionalization and the splitting of national economic space in polarized regions and their respective metropolitan areas are defined. In the third part, a first comparative analysis-static-of competitiveness is made based on the year of 1996. In the fourth part, an attempt is made of a dynamic competitiveness analysis based on the evolution in the period of 1985/96. |
