LOCAL PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS, DYNAMIC AND GROWTH: A METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO THE LPS OF FRUITS IN NORTHEASTERN PARÁ (2002 TO 2010)

Abstract

Comparing results of three surveys in the years 2002, 2007 and 2010 the article analyzes the dynamics of the Local Productive System (LPS) of Fruits in Northeastern Pará. Applying the Regulation Theory's notion of growth regime the text finds out that the productivity regime of the agglomerate has been guaranteeing increasing returns to scale, with contributions of innovation and cooperation. It is, though, a growth dynamics with constraints associated to a rate average of decreasing profit, for the "demand regime" was conformed so that pressures on the prices of the final products combine with elevation of the prices of major inputs of the industrial plants of the LPS. Finally an institutional regime, which favors the crisis that reaches many companies of the arrangement, is added to the picture, requiring measures that are basted in the final considerations.