Local/endogenous development꞉ epistemic perspectives about some of its basic components

Abstract

Centrist capitalist models of economic development have historically predominated. This has led to the indecent concentration of property, wealth and power, generating inequality, inequity and poverty. For several decades, alternative models of development have been conceived in an attempt to allow the local population to decide what to do with the resources of their territories and how to distribute the wealth created. This horizontal logic of development provides spaces for interconnection between public, social and private actors, with a view to modifying the socio-productive apparatus and promoting an innovative process of economic growth with equity and consolidating the identity and cultural traditions of the locality. The main objective of the work is to establish some of the main socio-productive, cultural and institutional components to be taken into account for endogenous development from the localities. The research made use of dialectical materialism in the process of studying the object under investigation. Of scientific value were the observation and analysis of documents and exchanges with different actors related to the subject. The study revealed that the main components of the local/endogenous development system to be taken into account in a locality may be꞉ variety and quality of natural, environmental, tourist and human resources. As well as the capacity for economic-productive, scientific-technological, competitiveness and innovation organization. In addition to the articulation and associativity of actors and institutions to build consensus around a common socio-political project.