ABSTRACT
The Brazilian economy is highly heterogeneous and marked by a high degree of spatial concentration (Azzoni 1997; Haddad 1999). After several decades of government policies designed to decrease this concentration, the effectiveness of these policies has been modest. Within the policy mix, energy-intensive sectors and energy producing sectors were seen as part of the core of the development policies of the country in the 1970s. As a consequence, the growth of these sectors strengthened the sectoral and spatial links in the Brazilian economy.
