A Culture of Urgency, and Municipal Asymmetries in the Territorial Contribution to Development

Abstract

Aim: To assess the levels of symmetry observed in decisions related to the utilization of territorial contribution to local development in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba, and the urgent vs strategic dilemma  in the practice  of decision-making culture of  allocating limited resources for development.

Methods and techniques: The method of case study was used in a Cuban province and municipalities, regarding the utilization of resources captured through territorial contribution to local development. Statistical-mathematical techniques were used in relation to the diagnostic of the current situation. Several indexes were designed to measure the levels of symmetry reached in municipal government management, regarding territorial contribution to local development.

Main results: The efficacy of decision-making in terms of municipal allocation of resources  generated  through  territorial  contribution  to  foster  local  development. Emphasis was placed on decision-making weaknesses observed throughout this process.

Conclusions: Every Cuban location will become a pivotal scenario in terms of future development and prosperity. The actors that emerged during the transformation of the Cuban Constitution are a reality now, and are already making institutional changes. Decentralization of decision-making to employ resources critical for endogenous development in every location demands an essential cultural transformation, in which impact assessment governs every decision that compromises the future. Significant asymmetries were corroborated in the effects achieved.