ABSTRACT

In May 1982 the Mexican and US steering committees of the First Conference on Regional Impacts of US-Mexico Economic Relations met at Grand Canyon in Arizona to discuss the organization of this second conference. The asymmetry in degree of development regions situated on one side of the border and the other is directly attributable to the effects of the economic system of the world's most powerful capitalist nation on its neighbor to the south. A general national priority should be reduction of the border states economies' dependence on the United States, while increasing the contribution of the border regions' economies to the national economy and development. Policies for regional industrial development must rest on a two-dimensioned strategy—one dimension being spatial, the other sectoral. The foregoing objectives cover an enormous amount of territory. A regional model puts into relief the general effects caused by different production techniques, consumer habits and business customs between regions.