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Author: Gail D Triner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1317323599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.
Author: Jeremy Richards
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-09-18
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 3642011039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book of peer-reviewed, edited papers that examines the minerals industry in relation to sustainable development. The book takes a proactive, positivist, and solution-oriented approach, while not shying away from the fundamental problems.
Author: Jennifer Eaglin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 019751068X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly sugar and ethanol policy, 1933-1959 -- Sugar, ethanol, and development, 1959-1975 -- Proálcool, 1975-1985 -- Lakes of sacrifice: ethanol and water pollution -- Proálcool, caneworkers, and the guariba strikes of 1984 -- Proálcool reimagined, 1985-2003.
Author: Joint Brazil-United States Economic Development Commission
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Markus Kroger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0472902393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus Kröger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof, through a comparison of peaceful and armed resource conflicts, explaining how different means of resistance arise. Using the distinctly different contexts and political systems of Brazil and India highlights the importance of local context for resistance. For example, if there is an armed conflict at a planned mining site, how does this influence the possibility to use peaceful resistance strategies? To answer such questions, Kröger assesses the inter-relations of contentious, electoral, institutional, judicial, and private politics that surround conflicts and interactions, offering a new theoretical framework of “investment politics” that can be applied generally by scholars and students of social movements, environmental studies, and political economy, and even more broadly in Social Scientific and Environmental Policy research. By drawing on a detailed field research and other sources, this book explains precisely which resistance strategies are able to influence both political and economic outcomes. Kröger expands the focus of traditionally Latin American extractivism research to other contexts such as India and the growing extractivist movement in the Global North. In addition, as the book is a multi-sited political ethnography, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, and others using field research among other methods to understand globalization and global political interactions. It is the most comprehensive book on the political economy and ecology of iron ore and steel. This is astonishing, given the fact that iron ore is the second-most important commodity in the world after oil.
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. American Republics Division
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul A. Haslam
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1317418905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and public spending on social and developmental goals surged. These trends, often described as resource nationalism, have developed into a strategy for economic development, generated a re-imagining of the state and its institutional possibilities, and created a new but very significant political risk for extractive enterprises. However, these innovations, which constitute the most dramatic change in development policy in Latin America since the advent of neoliberalism, have so far received little attention from either academic or policy-oriented publications. This book explores the reasons behind these policies, and their effects on states, firms, and development trajectories. This text brings together renowned thematic experts to examine the political-economic causes of resource nationalism, as well as its manifestation in six Latin American countries. The causal variables considered by the contributors to this collection include a range of political-economic determinants of policy including commodity prices; the influence of ideology and national politics; ideas about industrial policy; relations between host governments and investors; and how countries respond to opportunities provided by regional initiatives and the new geography of the global economy. This volume is essential reading in development economics, political economy, and Latin American studies, as well as for those who want to understand what economic development means after neoliberalism.
Author: J. Wilson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1137023198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNortheast Asian steel industries have developed global production networks, but by spanning multiple national spaces, these networks unite many national economies while belonging exclusively to none. Who, therefore, is in control? Jeffrey D. Wilson examines how states and firms coordinate their activities to govern global production.
