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One traditional battle for Brazilian planners has been to spread prosperity inland, away from the richer coastal areas. Nowhere was this more needed than in the Amazon, after the collapse of the rubber industry in the early 20th century. Adapted from the source document.

The collection of papers analyses the history of regional problems, policies and politics, thereby advancing appropriate technologies for regional development within and between countries. Regionalism in Africa is in the process of being redefined as problems and potentials are juxtaposed with the emerging international division of labor

Regional policy and planning in developing countries has the task to surmount spatial disequilibria. Various theories of regional development try to show a way out of economic disparities; but these theories are not always accepted by political institutions.

Regional development banks can serve as focal points for regional and subregional cooperation, thus promoting economic integration. They are institutions whose objectives are neither national nor global and whose leadership and staffs have a regional outlook.The first and immediate challenge confronting these regional development banks is the financing of regional projects which are beyond the reach of national development banks. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has devoted only limited resources to such project, with a few spectacular exceptions, especially the Indus River project. A purely national approach to planning and financing development does not make sense in most of Latin America and Africa because many nations on these continents are "minicountries," too small to form economic units of development. Many national borders have been determined by political and diplomatic history rather than by economic factors; frequently, they cut across natural development units such as river basins or mineral deposits. Moreover, except in Europe, the very dearth of strong national institutions makes regional development banks important; they provide additional financial intermediaries to be interposed between the developing regions and the world financial centers, as well as between various national financial institutions of the member countries of the regions concerned.