Mainstream academics and pundits positions China as an imperial nation similar to the British Empire in the 18th century, which scavenged uncharted territories in search of natural resources for capital accumulation. As Latin America countries are recipients of a large portion of China's...

This issue of 'International Development Policy' looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. After a period of robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction associated with high commodity...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...