Based on these views, maybe one should accept the fact that the techno-economic
dichotomy of the developed world and parts of the developing world will not be
overcome, even in the longer term, unless ways could be found in which local
economic development in lagging countries could be speeded up. As long as the gap
between development conditions in the North and South remains as wide as it
currently is, focusing intentionally on the vertical integration of the formal and
informal urban economic sectors in the urban South seems to be one of the methods in
which the gap could be narrowed. Recognizing the inherent structure of the informal
urban sector and narrowing the gap between the upper, technologically more
sophisticated layer of the informal sector and the formal urban sector is one way of
making conventional market forces more accessible to the lagging sector of the urban
South. In the process lessons that have been learned about the long term affect of
unsustainable urban economic practices in the industrializing South should be firmly
kept in mind.
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