This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment, singling out three factors: the textile industry; government that provided key infrastructural provisions; and cotton-grower associations that were able to counter-balance the monopsony of the textile companies.

Monograph of essays on the geography of economic development, comprising a spatial analysis of regional planning strategy in developing countries - covers such topics as natural resources, irrigation, agriculture, population structure, internal migration, urbanization, location of industry theory, inland water transport, development policy, etc. Maps, references and statistical tables.

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Monographic compilation of essays on the disparity between urbanization and rural development in Latin America - illustrates the manner in which government policies have either deliberately or unwittingly influenced social change in the form of unequal geographic distribution of population and unequal income distribution, and assesses governments' efforts to reduce the inequities caused by urban industrial development, etc. References and statistical tables.

This book provides diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogue and investment priorities on urbanization in Colombia, addresssing the need to deepen economic connectivity, enhance coordination at a regional and metropolitan scale, and foster efficiency and innovativeness in how cities finance themselves.