Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America: Lessons from the Past and Perspectives for the Future

• Open Access
• Offers a comprehensive study of the material, discursive, and ideological dimensions of the ongoing reconfiguration of the state’s role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy
• An original and multi-disciplinary approach which adopts a global outlook.
• An extensive analysis of case studies and illustrative vignettes across a range of economic sectors and areas of policymaking, from development finance to techno-industrial policy and trade and investment restriction

• Open Access
• Provides in-depth analysis of mining governance and state enterprise reforms based on 10 years of fieldwork experience in Brazil and Chile
• Includes up-to-date discussion on industrial policy and recent changes in mining legislations in the context of clean energy transition
• Offers a new theoretical framework combining historical institutionalism and political economy analysis on state ownership and extractivism

South – South Transformations in Practice:

• A bottom-up account of how infrastructure investment from the Global South has impacted African policies and practices–and its implications for an increasingly multipolar world.
• Examines large-scale Chinese-, Brazilian- and Indian-funded ventures–dams, ports, roads and mines–across countries including Kenya, Mozambique and the DRC.
• Discusses the longer-term significance of these pluralistic socio-economic interactions, for the continent and beyond.