CRESCIMENTO ECONÔMICO E DISPARIDADE REGIONAL EM MATO GROSSO NO INÍCIO DO SÉCULO XXI.

This paper sought to analyze the behavior of regional economic disparities in regions by productive sectors in the geographic regions of Mato Grosso State in Brazil. For this, we used the methodological procedure based on the estimate of the Williamson Coefficient (Vw), using as a parameter the Gross Value Added (GVA) per capita for the economic sector and the resident population in the years 2002, 2010 and 2020. Furthermore, the GVA per capita of Mato Grosso State was used as a parameter to evaluate the intra-regional scenario. The results showed that the services sector presented the greatest regional convergence in the period between 2002 and 2020. The industrial sector is also moving towards greater regional homogeneity, however, with less intensity in some regions when observing the performance of the Vw. Regional differences were detected in the agricultural sector, with emphasis on the region of Sorriso, which presented the highest Vw significant value in 2020 in 2020. Furthermore, the regions of Cuiabá and Diamantino showed a moderate variation towards the highest regional divergence, that is, they are distancing themselves from the others in terms of homogeneity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]