the colima economy from fifties to the eighties

The economic development of Colima, from 50s to 80s decades, was characterized for three stages which are differentiated for some certain features given by the roll that plays the economic sectors from the behaviour of some basic indicators of economic activities like port, agricultural, tourism, mining and industry, an for the economic strategy proposed during these years.

In the 50s and 60s years, the economic of Colima took two fundamental characteristics which transcendent to the 70s decade: the supremacy in the participation in the agricultural sector in the gross state product, specialy given with impulse of the industrialization agricultural, and the mining activation, transforming in the base of economic development to Colima. The second stage, is in the 70s decade, and is characterized by the dynamic that industrial stage takes above other sectors with more slowly growing tax, besides it is characterized for one reduction of the growth tax of the gross estate product.

The characteristics of economic development of Colima during these years are: standstill of the agricultural activity, trade and services, growth of industry, the urbanization and new economic profile, and makes the bases from the new economic profile of the 80s, in the context of the trade opening. The economy of Colima presented a regional polarization of the activities, a deficient communications and transports, a tourist potential misuse, an important growing of the industrial activities, and the necessity to expand the potential of the Manzanillo port and their big expectatives in the Mexican pacific, and an important growing of an industrial sector highly polarized. This panorama impacted in the profile of the development of Colima in the next decade.

The third moment which crosses the economic of Colima, and is presented in the decade of the 80s, is characterized by the beginning of an economic model based in the planning which ;designs; an integrated Colima to the center-occident of the country, in the context of the trade opening, and with a potential for to join to the economic dynamic to the ;Valley of the Pacific; fundamentally for the roll which was given to the Manzanillo port.