Análise da produção e exportação de soja no Brasil entre 2000 e 2020 à luz da teoria da base exportadora de Douglass North

Abstract

In the last decades, the soybean cultivation has advanced considerably in Brasil, being one of the most noticeable phenomena in the country’s economy. Therefore, this monography has intented, in a first moment, to analyze and to measure how this growth happened, not only in a national level but also in the states where this cultivation is more relevant. Were analyzed endogenous and exogenous factors, from data available by government sources, and from several bibliographics references. In a second moment, has intended to evaluate how this production leads to exportation, and if the main producers states show locational specialization (through the Location Quotient indicator) in this meaning. At last, the study has used the Export Base Theory as reference if, in the regions where the specialization has ocurred, elapsed also an economic development. As a geographic cutout, the mesoregions of the state that showed the higher Location Quotient, Mato Grosso. The results observed is that the mesoregions with higher growth in the soybean production where, in general, also the mesoregions with the best results in the regional development indicators in the period.