Infrastructure and rurality: Challenges for sustainable economic development in Latin America
Latin America is a region with a great environmental and cultural diversity; however, most of its countries have high levels of poverty and inequality, characteristics that are accentuated in rural areas. This paper establishes that the reduction of the urban-rural gap and investment in sustainable...
- Autores:
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Jimenez-Castilla, Tania
Bolívar Caro, Luis Miguel
Segrera-Castilla, Michael
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Institucional UTB
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.utb.edu.co:20.500.12585/9988
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12585/9988
http://laccei.org/LACCEI2020-VirtualEdition/meta/FP542.html
- Palabra clave:
- Sustainable infrastructure
Sustainable development
Poverty
Inequality
Rurality
LEMB
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | Latin America is a region with a great environmental and cultural diversity; however, most of its countries have high levels of poverty and inequality, characteristics that are accentuated in rural areas. This paper establishes that the reduction of the urban-rural gap and investment in sustainable infrastructure are the key challenges facing Latin American governments to achieve significant progress. The analysis explains that, if infrastructure projects are promoted in the region, it impacts on at least nine sustainable development goals (SDGs), which would result in a significant increase in people's well-being. |
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