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This study seeks to present an intervention strategy for the development of the rural highlands that: (i) attends to the particularities of the natural resources available to it, its current productive structure, and its historical-cultural background, (ii) explicitly assumes a broad vision of rural development that separates it from an exclusive agrarian development strategy, especially those that focus on trade policies, (iii) considers neutral policies for market and product development, but also incorporates positive discrimination policies for increasing productive capacities in the medium and long term, in addition to assistance policies for poverty alleviation and protection of the human capital of future generations, and (iv) relies heavily on the proper identification of market failures to determine the type of interventions for increasing productive capacities in the medium and long term.