Latin America, Political Economy of Minerals, Extraction, and Imperialism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1584-1592
Author(s):  
Henry Veltmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America

Latin America and China’s Transnationalizing Oil Industry: A Political Economy Assessment of New Relations

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 626-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Hogenboom
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Regional Trends ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Chinese oil companies have recently started to set up operations in Latin America, and they are doing this at a rapid pace. This article aims to provide an overview of the increasing flows of oil and capital (fdiand credit) between Latin America and China, and to clarify how they interact with the broader Sino-Latin American relations as well as Latin America’s changing political landscape. In addition to regional trends, the cases of Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador are discussed. The article combines an assessment of factual data with an analysis of the broader political economy context in which these new oil relations operate. Next to national differences, three general tendencies stand out: first, the type of arrangements and coordinated activities that Chinese companies, banks and government agencies deploy differ from those of other large oil-seeking nations; second, while the arrival of Chinese capital is welcomed by Latin American governments and pictured as part of non-imperialist South-South relations, Chinese oil companies and loans are sometimes criticized in local media by scholars, opposition andngos; and third, Chinese oil imports and investments have added to changing attitudes and policies towards strategic sectors under new political regimes, which allows for more social spending but which critics have labeled as the return to an ‘extractivist model.’

The Political Economy of Latin America.

1966 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Frank T. Bachmura ◽  
Wendell C. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The Political

The use of economic instruments for pollution control in Latin America: lessons for future policy design*

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCELO CAFFERA
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Policy Recommendation ◽  
Economic Instruments ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Latin American Countries

ABSTRACTI review the few programs implemented in Latin America to control pollution with direct economic instruments and draw general lessons for the future implementation of these instruments in the region. The available evidence suggests that a combination of low capacities and political economy issues negatively affected the implementation of these programs. As a result, the capacity of the economic instruments to induce emission reductions cost effectively and their future political viability in these countries in the short- or medium-run may have been compromised. This present state of affairs provides more evidence in favor of the policy recommendation that Latin American countries should build local capacities before implementing direct economic instruments, than in favor of the alternative that these countries should adapt direct economic instruments to their institutional and political characteristics.

Economics as a Public Mission

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-143
Author(s):  
Amy C. Offner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
National Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Specialized Form ◽  
National Economic Policy

This chapter focuses on John M. Hunter, the thirty-nine-year-old Illinois native who spoke as director of Colombia's first economic research center and addressed readers of one of Colombia's premier journals of economic research, the Revista del Banco de la República. It also talks about economics in Latin America. During the years after 1945, Colombian universities established freestanding economics programs where none had existed before. There had been men called economists in Colombia for decades; they were brilliant lawyers, engineers, businessmen, and politicians who made national economic policy and taught occasional courses in political economy on the side. But the crisis of the 1930s had inspired a new regard for economic expertise as a specialized form of knowledge, and Colombians set out to create a new kind of economist to steer the state. The invention of economics as an independent discipline, a nineteenth-century process in the United States and much of Europe, was thus a twentieth-century phenomenon in Latin America, born of new visions of national development and spearheaded by renowned men in business and government.

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