In the 1990s decade, market opening plus investments attracted by industrial policies and fiscal war in the Brazilian states, such as Paraná, fostered production restructuring. The present article aims at assessing Paraná socioeconomic and territorial changes based on the production and territorial changes experienced by this state and its meso-regions in the 1990s decade. The article research was descriptive, applied and quantitative and analyzed data from 1991 to 2000. The research inferred that investments were mainly concentrated in the Curitiba metropolitan area car industries, what did not reduce the existing regional unbalance.
Local development; Paraná; Production restructuring
