Structural transition in peripheries: case of Quebec
Crossing theory of great structural cycles with center – periphery model to analyse the evolution of Quebec’s periphery provide some relevant lights on its contemporary context of development. After an historical period of simple extractivism, endogenous forces has worked on territories to empower progressively the richness during a period of real regional prosperity before exogenous domination of financial flows came back strongly. Among this double reversal of financial power, integration process was real and constant but abandoning poor or consumed territories. Industrial structure didn’t achieve maturity and stayed dependent after the take of od localities. Largely supported by important public policies, actual regional transition searches its path among options for a new great structural cycle of development.