Globalisation and Regional Development

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, António Simões
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2002.85

Economics as a social science imposes that the economic processshouldn’t be limited to economic features, especially becausedevelopment can’t be assessed only by the results of the economicgrowth. In this context, one wonders if globalisation has been at thedevelopment’s service.Globalisation is established; it has been establishing itself since thebeginnings. There were times that the Portuguese contributed greatly to it.But globalisation only brought “convergence” as regards some levellingof prices and not as regards wealth distribution. It would be convenient to“regulate it” in that direction.Globalisation, by nature, is very difficult to control. The most “radical”argue that it causes the rupture of the natural systems and the decrease ofdiversity. It is assumed that globalisation raises serious ethic problems: big“corporations” are very difficult to “regulate”, because as they useglobalisation they overcome the limits and the capacities of the States.There’s the need of turning development’s objectives into final aims,within the framework of the regional development. There are somefactors, which stand for positive expectations: at the European Unionlevel, we have the EDEC, the 2nd Report on Cohesion and the principle ofsubsidiarity; at the national level, there is the PDR and the GOP. As anyconcrete action can only be carried out in the territory, in the regions, theregional development policies will influence globalisation, regulating it.Globalisation must be assumed as a development tool and not only asa growth tool.