Latin American scholars on China and China – Latin America: new article

I am pleased to have co-authored this article with Barbara Stallings, «Latin American Scholars Home In On Relations With China», in Global Perspectives (2023)(4)(1) out this week. We analyze major trends in Latin American scholarship in the areas of Economics, Socio-Environmental Impacts, and Geopolitics, and suggest priorities for future research. Hope it is of interest!
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Governing Extractive Industries… in Chinese!

Thrilled to see the Chinese edition of this book written together with Anthony Bebbington, Abudul-Garafu Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Marja Hinfelaar.  Governing Extractive Industries.  Politics, History, Ideas was translated by our friend and colleague Dr. Weijun Xie, and published by the prestigious University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) press.  It will soon be available
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China cambia la narrativa: ¿de origen a solución de la pandemia?

¿Nuestras relaciones oficiales con la China se estrecharán más en este contexto o nos vamos distanciando en la medida que cerramos fronteras y nos concentramos en la situación local? Una breves reflexiones nuestras sobre las relaciones China – América Latina en el contexto actual.   En la nueva edición de Punto de Equilibrio, publicación histórica del CIUP
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Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon.

Recent volume co-edited with Rebecca Ray and Kevin Gallagher of Boston University.   Chapter on Peru authored by Juan Luis Dammert.  (Versión en español sale próximamente por Fondo Editorial Universidad del Pacífico). This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in
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The Ford Foundation and Social Change in South America. New publication (English post).

I am pleased to announce the publication of this new book, La Fundación Ford y el cambio social en América del Sur, 1962 – 2012, in digital form and open access, the result of a longer-term research project conducted with outstanding co-authors in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and the US, and co-edited with my colleague
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La Fundación Ford y el cambio social en América del Sur. Nueva publicación.

Contenta de anunciar la publicación de este libro, en forma digital y de acceso abierto, producido con co-autores de lujo en Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú y EEUU, y co-editada con mi colega Alejandra Villanueva.   Durante la mayor parte del Siglo 20, la Fundación Ford fue la entidad filantrópica mas grande de EEUU y con mayor
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Southern Development Banks, Infrastructure and the Environment: Research from the Andean Amazon

Two recent articles highlight research on the social and environmental safeguards of Southern development banks (banks from China, Brazil, CAF and IDB), undertaken by colleagues at Boston University´s Global Development Policy Center, the Universidad del Pacífico, FLACSO – Ecuador and INSEAD – Bolivia.   Kevin Gallagher and Rebecca Ray lead this project from BU, and the UP
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Governing Extractive Industries. Politics, Histories, Ideas

I am pleased to share this new publication from Oxford University Press, the result of extensive research conducted under the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) project at the University of Manchester.   Our team was led by Anthony Bebbington, with Abdul Garafu-Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Marja Hinfelaar and myself, and an amazing team of junior
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