The article addresses the planning challenges involved in the territorial development of rural areas in Brazil. Its main concern is that the country needs intermediary organizations, beyond the municipal limits, yet inside the state boundary, which could embody the joint construction of...

This paper analyses the regional convergence of the per capita income in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. A distributional function of the per capita income is estimated for the years of 1985 and 1999. Five income classes are defined. Based on these two functions, a Markov transitional...