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"Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans and cattle to feed its workers. By the 1990s, many Latin American countries were riding China's coattails and beginning to prosper from the new demand. Ever since China entered the World Trade Organization at the turn of the century, Latin America supplied China with more and more of the primary commodities it needs and more. That in turn has produced one the most impressive periods of economic growth on the continent in fifty years. And it was more evenly spread too - a region infamous for its extreme inequality saw it decline by a couple of percentage points over the course of the era. In The China Triangle, Kevin P. Gallagher traces the development of the China-Latin America trade over time and covers how it has affected the centuries-old (and highly unequal) US-Latin American relationship. He argues that despite these opportunities Latin American nations have little to show for riding the coattails of the 'China Boom' and now face significant challenges in the next decades as China's economy slows down and shifts more toward consumption and services. While the Latin American region saw significant economic growth due to China's rise over the past decades, Latin Americans saved very little of the windfall profits it earned even as the region saw a significant hollowing of its industrial base. What is more, commodity-led growth during the China boom reignited social and environmental conflicts across the region. Scholars and reporters have covered the Chinese expansion into East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia, Africa, the US, and Europe. Yet China's penetration Latin America is as little understood as it is significant-especially for America given its longstanding ties to the region. Gallagher provides a clear overview of China's growing economic ties with Latin America and points to ways that Latin American nations, China, and even the United States can act in order to make the next decades of China-Latin America economic activity more prosperous for all involved"--

Collecting and synthesizing a series of essays on the political economy of trade and development policy, this book explores the following research questions: to what extent is the global trading regime reducing the ability of nation states to pursue policies for financial stability and economic growth; and what political factors explain such changes in policy space over time, across different types of trade treaties and across nations?

Presents a collection of expert voices commenting on the interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment. This title synthesizes the themes of the collection, which is divided into three sections: trade and environmental quality; trade and environmental politics, and trade and environmental policy

This book demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. It also shows that some EMDs, particularly the BRICS coalition, were able to maintain or expand their sovereignty to regulate cross-border finance under global economic governance institutions.

The enormous rise in Chinese financial lending to major infrastructure and heavy industry projects has raised concerns regarding the environment. Over the past twenty years, civil society has pushed for the inclusion of social and environmental guidelines regional and government development banks' guidelines. As a result, multilateral and Western banks have established a set of internationally agreed upon lending practices. These practices have shaped the rise of social and environmental protection within the developing world by tying the availability of loans to these policy conditions. China has been a relatively newcomer in establishing similar environmental guidelines for its development banks. Although China has made some significant progress, China still has a ways to go to meet internationally established environmentally responsible lending practices. ; El enorme auge de los préstamos financieros chinos para importantes proyectos de infraestructura e industria pesada ha planteado preocupaciones con respecto al ambiente. A lo largo de los últimos 20 años, la sociedad civil ha demandado la inclusión de directrices sociales y ambientales, directrices regionales y directrices de los bancos regionales y gubernamentales de desarrollo. Como resultado, la banca multilateral y occidental ha establecido un conjunto de prácticas de préstamo acordadas internacionalmente. Estas prácticas han dado forma a la creciente protección social y ambiental en el mundo en desarrollo al vincular la disponibilidad de préstamos con estas condiciones normativas. China ha sido un actor relativamente nuevo en el establecimiento de directrices ambientales similares para sus bancos de desarrollo. Si bien este país ha realizado progresos significativos, todavía tiene mucho que recorrer para satisfacer prácticas de préstamos ambientalmente responsables establecidas por la comunidad en términos internacionales.