Abstract
The process of productive deconcentration that began around the 1970s brought expectations about a more balanced regional development in Brazil. After a virtuous cycle of deconcentration, during the period of the economic miracle, the process cooled, raising concerns about a productive repolarization in the Southeast region and an eminent fragmentation of the regional economies. In this context, the present article will defend, with the subsidy of studies from a national and regional perspective, that a combination of factors such as political-institutional reorientation, economic growth cycle and the favorable international context, among others, contributed to the emergence of a more pronounced dynamic of productive deconcentration in the period between 2000 and 2015.
Keywords:
productive deconcentration; regional development; regional public policies; productive and territorial restructuring; territorial organization: territorial reconfiguration