Local Development and Public Politics Evaluation: Analysis of the viability of creation of un index of local development for the city of São José do Rio Preto.

Author(s)

Claudia Moreira Borges

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Ribeirão Preto.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC)
• Defense date: 2007-06-21

Examining board members

Dante Pinheiro Martinelli; Edmundo Escrivao Filho; Helena Carvalho de Lorenzo

• Advisor: Dante Pinheiro Martinelli

Abstract

This work has the objective of analyse the impacts generated by Industrial and Services Minidistricts, implanted in São José do Rio Preto, with the the construction of a quantitative toolto verify the influences in the local development. In order to reach this objective, there were delineated stages of research: qualitative and documental, both oriented by Gil (2002) among others, and quantitative, according to Hair et al. (2005). In the qualitative stage, the program of Mini-districts was analysed under a historical view and the main repercussions, actors and incentive data were identified for the city of São José do Rio Preto. Through the analysis and other built models, the local development model was created based on the Program of Industrial and Services Mini-districts, entitled Local-Industrial Integrated Development Model (LIID). In the quantitative stage there were applied grouping and discriminant tests and the sector census data disposable by the IBGE. The sectors were classified in clusters with the help of the grouping test. It was generated a function which enables to verify the developmental differences between the regions have and the ones that have not mini-districts. The results reveal that the sectors where the mini-districts are located are the ones that lack in high output and education, and are also the most populous ones, being this last encouraged by the Mini-districts. (AU)