EXPANSÃO DO SETOR DE SERVIÇOS EM GOIÁS: CONFIGURAÇÃO REGIONAL (1999-2008)

Abstract

This thesis deals with the expansion, changes and spatial configuration of the service s sector in the State of Goiás from the 1999-2008. It examines the relationship between this expansion, growth and the desconcentration of industrial activity of the state, during this period, with a focus on spatial dynamics of these two movements. For that analyzes the characteristics and evolution of different types of services comparing them with the profile of the industrial structure and considering the movement of the polarization of the Goiânia city economy. It was verified that the spatial distribution of service activities in their expansion followed the path of the industry reveals, however, a greater degree of initial concentration and a greater resistance to decentralization. The research also showed a difference between the dynamics of the various types of services, revealing that the productive services, unlike the others, it had increased its concentration in the expansion, crowding, especially in the metropolitan region. On the other hand personal services were the most decentralized in relation to the metropolitan area, responding to population expansion and improvement of income in the emerging industrial centers of the state. The segments in the strategic location of knowledge-intensive industries, the most modern of productive services, proved to be the most concentrated. They had, however, some devolution, revealing that the industry of the state, especially the agro-industry, increasingly it calls for more sophisticated services. It was also explained that small deconcentration of services was limited, even more strongly that the industry in a limited number of municipalities. The relative distribution between the service activities in the municipalities is related to the type of industry, its expansion and diversification, degree of local roots, as well as the position of the municipality in the process of polarization of economic activities in the State of Goias.