From Regional Development to Local Developmentanalysis of Some Aspects of Regional Economic Policy

• Autor(a) principal: Cabugueira, Artur Carlos Crespo Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• 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.2000.9

This article focuses on the problematic nature of development, not in the ambit of a conceptual perspective, but considered in the real space. In other words, this article presents some aspects related to the regionalization of the development process, that is to say, it analyses some features of regional and local development.We started from the study of some basic concepts of Regional Development and then we have studied the development of more restrict territory units – the local development, highlighting development policies that may be implemented there. In that task, we emphasise the participation of local agents in diagnostic and joint ventures processes. We conclude, supporting the idea, that the participation of local agents is crucial to the development process, though it is not sufficient to promote it. In order for the individual or joint ventures to have technical and institutional viability it is necessary that highly skilled professionals support development.