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This paper analyzed the convergence of economic growth and socioeconomic development in the Legal Amazon region. For this, the methodology of Convergence Means was used. To measure economic growth, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and the Gross Value Added (VAB) per capita referring to the three sectors of the economy were used as variables. Regarding socioeconomic development, the Firjan Index of Municipal Development (IFDM) was used as variables for the dimensions: General, Health, Employment and Income and Education. The results showed that the variables related to economic growth, presented themselves as convergent and showed a great growth in the period. In relation to variables related to socioeconomic development, the level of convergence was significant, with exception of the variable employment and income, which proved to be divergent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aimed to identify a typology of municipalities in the Legal Amazon based on indicators of deforestation, economic, agricultural production, development and poverty, basic housing infrastructure and infant mortality. The 760 municipalities that are part of PRODES and a database with 24 variables for the year 2017 were considered. The characterization of the municipalities was carried out based on the implementation of two multivariate methods: factor analysis and cluster analysis. The results of the factor analysis indicated an adequacy of six factors for the analysis, synthesizing information on the degree of Deforestation and conditions, Average development, Rural scale, Economic scale, Housing infrastructure and Infant mortality in the municipalities. The cluster analysis identified four distinct groups. One of the groups would be more related to a profile associated with the highest level of deforestation, together with the highest values of GDP, population, agricultural production and more positive development, education, employment and housing indicators and lower poverty and infant mortality rate. However, another group of municipalities was also identified, characterized by high deforestation, with a level lower than that group, associated with lower values of GDP, agricultural production, and development indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has as the main goal present the recent evolution of the eucalyptus silviculture over the agriculture border of Legal Amazon in the State of Maranhão. It's considered the propagation of historical appropriation and commodification models of the area by large economical projects based on oreagriculture- export, specially, the increase of the eucalyptus plantation due to the installation of the plant from the company Suzano, Paper and Cellulose in the city of Imperatriz, Maranhão State, in 2009. The methodology is to present the cartographic production and the productive chain of the paper and cellulose over the Maranhão State, we present data regarding the evolution of the eucalyptus monoculture plantation. The data obtained suggest the reproduction of the historical model of enclave economy, perpetrated by the large agroextractivist ventures in the Amazon, aimed at the production of export commodities from the unrestrained plundering of natural resources with little local socioeconomic return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]