Regional disparity in Brazil is exemplified by the
a. Southeast accounting for about half of the country's GDP.
b. Northeast having about half of the population but accounting for only about fifteen percent of the country's GDP.
c. persistence of poverty in the South.
d. concentration of industry in the North.
e. states in the Southeast having a per capita GDP that is half of the national average.
a
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