出版社：Faculdade de Administra??o, Contabilidade e Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：The paper describes and analyses the movement of the
economy of Rio Grande do Sul, in the period 1990-2002, comparing
it with the broader movement of the Brazilian economy and with
its performance in the previous two decades. The data analyzed
refers to the Gross Regional Product (total, by sectors and per capita), to foreign trade, to physical and nominal value of
production of manufacturing sector and to demographic and
occupational aspects. The paper evaluates the growth of the regional
economy, its composition, the performance of the foreign
sector, the total and activity productivity of labor, and the elasticity
of occupation to variations of product. The analysis concludes
rejecting the hypothesis of structural or dynamic insufficiency of
regional productive matrix. The conclusion also suggests the hypothesis
that there is a new pattern of articulation of the regional
economy with the national and external markets, which emerged
of the productive restructuration of the 90’s. In this new pattern,
the importance of foreign market for industrial product seems to
be the key and distinctive element to explain the economic growth
of the regional economy in relation to the national economy
关键词：Economy of Rio Grande do Sul. Economic growth.
Regional macroeconomics.
