Productive and Spatial Changes
Since the early 1990s, Rio de Janeiro State has undergone major changes in its economic dynamics, in sharp contrast to the severe economic and social crisis that marked the 1980s. The expansion of the oil extraction sector and the macroeconomic policies of the 2000s are important elements of its recent history. This chapter aims to analyze the nature and determining factors of those changes, considering the main quantitative and qualitative trends in the production structure (sectoral and regional) and in the spatial division of labor in Rio de Janeiro State and in the Metropolitan Region of its capital.