The World Bank encourages integration into the global economy as the path towards development. However, the performance of resource peripheries has remained unsatisfactory, also because numerous economic activities are concentrated in ‘gateways’ – that is, cities that interlink other places globally. Gateways appear to prosper at the expense of peripheral locations, whose role in the corresponding networks is reduced to basic functions. To guarantee better development outcomes for resource peripheries, an increasing number of scholars call for strict legislation on local content. The article engages with this literature. It analyses the interplay of Buenos Aires with the provinces of Neuquén and Río Negro, where large oil and gas deposits are exploited. Buenos Aires bundles especially corporate control and research-intensive activities, but there are several other obstacles to peripheral development. Local content policy is largely inadequate to solve these problems, as firms from the resource periphery still fail to upgrade to higher value-added tasks and jobs created by extractive industries are not sustainable. Skilled employees reject moving to peripheral locations. The business environment there is not suitable for corporate control.

世界银行鼓励将融入全球经济作为发展之路。然而，资源周边的表现仍然不尽如人意，这也是因为众多经济活动集中在“门户”——即与全球其他地方相连的城市。网关的繁荣似乎是以外围位置为代价的，外围位置在相应网络中的作用被简化为基本功能。为保证资源周边取得更好的发展成果，越来越多的学者呼吁对本地内容进行严格立法。这篇文章涉及这方面的文献。它分析了布宜诺斯艾利斯与内乌肯省和里奥内格罗省之间的相互作用，那里开采了大量石油和天然气。布宜诺斯艾利斯捆绑了特别是公司控制和研究密集型活动，但外围发展还有其他几个障碍。本地含量政策在很大程度上不足以解决这些问题，因为来自资源边缘的公司仍然无法升级到更高附加值的任务，而采掘业创造的就业机会是不可持续的。熟练的员工拒绝搬到外围位置。那里的商业环境不适合公司控制。