Exploratory spatial analysis of the relationship between GDP growth and agricultural performance in Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract:

Despite the importance of the Value of Agricultural Production (VAP) for the GDP of Rio Grande do Sul, no quantitative work has been carried out on local scale to assess how this importance may vary over the space. The knowledge about how the VAP is transferred to GDP remains aggregated for the entire state and speculative at local scales. In this study the growth of the GDP (cGDP) and Agricultural Production Value (cVAP) were verified in an Exploratory Spatial Analysis (ESA) to assess the sensitivity of the results to state partitioning and adjacency relationships. Evidences of spatial structuring of the association between cVAP and cGDP were verified in a Monte Carlo test to conclude that the association is non-stationary and heterogeneously defined by the local economy.

Palavras-chave:
GDP; territorial development; spatial analysis; GWSS