Estrategias de desarrollo regional. El Caso de la región de Atacama (Chile)

Abstract

ABSTRACT The economic growth factors are not a closed inventory, but an open and changing one. In this changing environment, a country must be able to define growth lines and equitable economic development for its regions, and these in turn, should actively participate in changing strategies, taking into consideration the growth potential of its resources and development opportunities offered by market. Endogenous development policy is a concrete response to the need of establishing a policy of sustainable growth and region’s development. For endogenous development to be successful, you need not only economic relations between their productivity structures, but social and cultural values as well as a basis for the development process. In fulfilling these goals, it is necessary to have sustainable strategies over time for their own benefit, so that in this way the region, will acquire superior economic competitiveness and social sustainability.