Local planning of the territory in a global economy. Some reflections on the rural territory of Costa Rica

Abstract

This essay mentions the models of Costa Rican development which, as we will see,
have been closely linked to rural territories in all the stages of the agro-export still in force, and it emphasizes the difficulties that the rural local governments have when they need to organize with juxtaposed economic dynamics. This essay was prepared with a literature review. The main conclusions warn that territorial ordering and administration instruments, which historically have not worked, have allowed the presence of rural territories with crops that transcend administrative areas where it is a supra-regional activity and that corresponds to a country economic bet; in addition, it is where populations are mostly located with the most unfavorable social indicators.