This paper discuss the theoretical background of the ideas which support clustering policies. It is argued that in spite of having been fostered under ideological hegemony of liberal ideas, the clustering policies framework does not rely strictly on this ideology. It also draws some conceptions...

This paper presents an interpretation of the developments in the Brazilian regional disparities in the last fifty years. It relies on a view of the capitalist development in this periods to explain the recent reversion in the convergence of the per capita regional income. Its major hypothesis is...