The New Paisa Energy: A region as local development strategy in Antioquia, Colombia

Abstract

The administrative decentralization facilitates the emergence of strategies that promote bottom-up development. Therefore,  creating  conditions  to  find  internal  solutions  to diverse issues that occur in most municipalities in Colombia, in which resources become insufficient. This paper aims to establish the legal and theoretical framework of a regional integrating strategy in the Eastern area of Antioquia, which focuses on local development as a result of complementary efforts. Based on the aforementioned, this paper analyzes aspects of the regional strategy, in order to pose emergent challenges and difficulties. Moreover, the text argues the possibility that this alternative could be replicated in other national regions, given the creation of social innovation.