The goal is to carry out a comparative study on the impacts of economic opening and restructuring on the largest metropolitan regions in Brazil from the point of view of the productive structure, labor market and poverty. Two dimensions are privileged:
- inter-metropolitan analysis in order to understand the changes in the structure of regional inequality in Brazil
- intra-metropolitan analysis, directed at the structure of inequality within a metropolitan space.
One of the expected consequences of these studies is to provide concrete subsidies to the reformulation of regional and sector development policies at different levels of government.