Políticas municipales de fomento de exportaciones locales en Argentina: implicancias de su condición de territorios periféricos

The promotion of exports of local producers by the Argentinean local municipal governments in the past decade has been influenced by two diverging theories of the local productive development: one aims to achieve development through the dynamics provided by the market, whereas the other one aspires to the construction of social development. In order for the process to gather momentum, it is necessary to establish a positive feedback loop between exporting and the local productive development, which requires a strengthening of the market mechanisms to counteract the intense weaknesses shown in Argentina, and at the same to reinforce the incipient strengths. To solve this problem, we elucidate about different ways in which the available assets are valued for the development in the centre and in the periphery, emphasising on the different resources available in each place. We classify these assets into those that have the capacity to self-reproduce, to self-value or value the rest of the available assets and those that have a static character.