Abstract

JIMENEZ BANDALA, Carlos Alberto. Industrialization and Neoliberalism:: failed development policies in the mexico-south, the case of The Papaloapan River Basin  . Oikos Polis [online]. 2017, vol.2, n.2, pp. 65-104. ISSN 2415-2250.

Abstract: This paper aims to present an analysis of the historical development of the so called Mexico-South, considering both the import substitution industrialization model (ISI) and the neoliberal period. It is considered that the public policies for economic and social development in both periods were failed because the structural problem of "internal colonialism" was not addressed; In the first case it was an authoritarian and truncated industrialization, for the second case a circular cumulative causation deepened the gaps between the north and the south of the country. The Papaloapan Basin Region, in Oaxaca, the second poorest state in the country, was taken as a case study.

Keywords : Regional Development; Development Theory; Economics Policies; Inequality.