Análise da correlação entre crescimento e desenvolvimento econômico no território Cantuquiriguaçu

Abstract

This study sought to analyze two economic aspects, dealing with economic growth and development, showing whether there is a correlation between the level of economic growth and development in the municipalities located in the Cantuquiriguaçu Territory in the period between 2010 and 2018. The research has an exploratory character with documentary predominance. The data used were mostly extracted from documents made available by IBGE and IPARDES. The per capita GDP Index in this study sought to qualify the economic growth variable and the IPARDES Municipal Performance Index (IPDM) was used to analyze the economic development variable. The statistical model used as a tool to correlate the data was the Pearson correlation analysis model. In the form of a ranking, 3 municipalities were listed as "best" and "worst" in relation to the average scores for both GDP per capita and for the IPDM, in which the first place for the variable of economic growth was occupied by the municipality from Pinhão, the second by Quedas do Iguaçu, and the third by Campo Bonito. As for the economic development variable, the placements were as follows: first by Laranjeiras do Sul, followed by Ibema and Virmond. It was noticed that the economies that had more significant economic advances in recent decades have a more diversified and intensified industrial structure. Thus, it can be said that the municipalities that had a better vocation in favor of sectors related to industry, commerce and services, therefore hypothetically had a greater tendency to economic growth. It was also observed that, in the majority, the municipalities with the highest scores in the health and education sectors were therefore the ones with the best economic development indices. Finally, in the present study, the results show that economic growth is correlated in about 84% with economic development, in the case of a strong or high correlation in the Cantuquiriguaçu territory, and the correlated value was found to be around 54.23% when the mean of the scores for the State of Paraná was estimated. This may indicate, on average, that economies with higher economic growth rates will tend to be economically more developed in the long run, if this economic growth is properly distributed, it can promote an increase in scores related to the education, health, employment, income and production sectors agriculture, possibly raising the levels of well-being of the individuals inserted there.