ABSTRACT
The polarization process, which makes fundamental changes on the physical and social dimensions of production, is a system which is driven exogenously to produce a dualized territorial division of activity. The development problems of LDCs such as those of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are not only rooted in spatial inequality of growth and development for which the "redistributive" approach may be applicable, but also in structural hegemony of growth which introduces economic inequities with unbalanced distribution of costs and benefits of the development process in society and space. In the framework of structural hegemony, the chapter considers conditions of competitive efficiency as equitable. The SSA case requires a framework that takes into consideration the role of structural hegemony in selective distortion of prices and markets. The lagged effect of colonial space on contemporary economy of SSA, required an important stage of readjustment that was absent in neoclassical Rostowian framework.
