The paper tried to contribute to the theory of the location of the bank services. At first, there was strong evidence showing that the bank location not only depended on economical factors. The developed model and the results found in the spatial econometrics analysis demonstrated that there is...

The purpose of this research was to show to what extent the problem of industrial heterogeneity is rooted in multi-scalar regional economic structures, particularly in the Brazilian Midwest from 2000 to 2010. Therefore, the technical features of the literature were used and adopted the...

The objective of this work, following the guidelines outlined in Pires (2023b and 2023c), is to understand how the agricultural structures of family farming in the Midwest were characterized, in their multi-scale forms, regarding their aspects of location and specialization? To this end, it...

From the 1980s to the present, transformations in the industrial structure of the states that make up the Midwest region drove industrial growth in this regional space. All of this was the result of a strategy to integrate this regional space into the national market and, from the 1990s, to...

The objective of this investigation was to characterize the agricultural structures in the center of the country, in their multiscalar forms, with regard to their location and specialization aspects. For all these reasons, there is a strong specialization in soybean, corn, sugar cane and cotton...

The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which the railway modalities implemented in the Midwest region have contributed to boost the integration process of this region to the main international consumption centers. In order to do so, it was adopted the hypothesis that the export...

From the 1980s to the present, transformations in the industrial structure of the states that make up the Midwest region drove industrial growth in this regional space. All of this was the result of a strategy to integrate this regional space into the national market and, from the 1990s, to...