Territorial Differences in the Economy of the State of Guerrero, Mexico

Abstract

The state of Guerrero has been studied from the perspective of several disciplines of the social sciences, highlighting the historical, ethnographic, anthropological, economic, political and geographical works. In spite of this, the economic-territorial configuration of the entity and its implications demand more works that examine the fundamental features of this state of Mexico. In this sense, the analysis of the economic dynamics of Guerrero from the territorial approach is a substantial contribution to the elucidation of contemporary socioeconomic disparities of that state. With this investigative purpose, in this article probabilistic typification was used. This methodology is characterized by the essential content of the typing method, territorial repetitiveness and hierarchy, which facilitates visualizing the disparities that prevail in the set of processes or objects analyzed. On this occasion, four socioeconomic indicators were used to assess the level of municipal development presented by the different Guerrero municipalities. Based on this, it was possible to identify that the territorial differences in the economy of the state of Guerrero are of a different type and magnitude; they reflect the intervention of political and economic actors: local, regional, national and, recently, multinationals, who have defined the areas where the introduction of various economic investments occurs.