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The global green transition presents a unique opportunity for resource-rich Latin American nations to leverage natural assets to reduce problematic structural barriers while expanding social inclusion and strengthening responses to climate change.
This book examines why coordinated and proactive development strategies aligned with emerging global sustainability imperatives are essential for achieving these goals. It outlines the contours of an inclusive green development strategy, placing a green developmental state at the center and emphasizing the role of broadly defined industrial policies. Drawing on heterodox economics and international political economy, Eva Paus and Rafael Domínguez analyze how Latin American governments can respond to current economic and geopolitical pressures.
Systemic change is possible if states adopt environmental-developmental roles, pursue active non-alignment, and engage in more coordinated foreign policy efforts. Readers will gain insight into the political and economic conditions that shape the feasibility of inclusive green development. The resulting book breaks down the strategic choices available to governments seeking to integrate sustainability with long-term economic transformation and inclusion. It offers a grounded perspective on how policy direction, institutional capacity, and international positioning can be used to navigate the challenges of our times.
List of contents
1. Toward inclusive green development.- 2. Industrial policies for inclusive green development: Challenges and opportunities.- 3. Maximizing policy and fiscal space for an inclusive green strategy.- 4. Building national power blocs to drive an inclusive green transition.- 5. Navigating the turbulent waters: Opportunities for strategic competition to implement the inclusive green agenda.
About the author
Eva Paus
is Professor of Economics Emerita at Mount Holyoke College, USA. Her recent research has focused on economic development in the context of globalization in the face of structural change, innovation, and the middle-income trap in Latin America and beyond. She is the author of several books, including
Global Capitalism Unbound
,
Confronting Dystopia
,
and
Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization
. Paus has collaborated with ECLAC, ILO, UNIDO, and UNDP.
Rafael Domínguez
is Professor of Economic History and Institutions in the Department of Economics at the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is a Fellow of the Social Science Doctoral Program at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Domínguez leads the international research group on South-South Cooperation and Regional Integrations of the Spanish Network of Development Studies, and he has collaborated with CEPAL, GIZ, Europeaid, and the international development cooperation agencies of Mexico and Chile.
