Um modelo teórico para explicar a transferência de capital entre regiões desigualmente desenvolvidas aplicado ao caso da indústria de calçados

Abstract

To face the problems regarding competition loss and profitability fall, which Rio Grande do Sul industry's shoemaker branch has been fighting against, mainly after the entry of China in the International market, the entrepreneurs have been addressing the sector's production restructuring towards a low road. Such a strategy consists in transferring part of its industrial plants to the Northeast, taking profit of subsidies as well as low labor prices in the region, in order to lower costs, thereby, partially making up the loss of participation in the external market for a rise in sales to the lower purchasing powered domestic market and, at the same time, gradually turning around an unfavorable externai environment.