Oil And Politics In Latin America

Author : George Philip
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521030706

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Oil and Politics in Latin America by George Philip Pdf

This book provides a study of the transformation of the Latin American oil system from one in which the international oil companies dominated to one which is dominated by the main state oil companies, and an account of how some of the more important of the state companies have operated. This comprehensive guide to the evolution of the Latin American oil system combines in one volume a synthesis of material from secondary sources and original research and thus provides an invaluable reference for all concerned with the history and economy of Latin America and with the development and functioning of the international oil industry.

Author : Guillaume Fontaine,Cecilia Medrano Caviedes,Iván Narváez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030289959

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The Politics of Public Accountability by Guillaume Fontaine,Cecilia Medrano Caviedes,Iván Narváez Pdf

This book seeks to consistently explain the role of ideas and institutions in policy outcomes, and addresses the problem of how resource nationalism causes a deficit of public accountability in oil producing countries from Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors present a causal mechanism linking ideas and policy outcomes through institutional arrangements, focusing on policy design to describe the role of instruments selection and combination in improving or reducing public accountability through agenda setting, policy formulation, cross-sectorial coordination and political interplays.

Author : John D. Wirth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023590990

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Latin American Oil Companies and the Politics of Energy by John D. Wirth Pdf

Author : John D. Wirth
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1587981033

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The Oil Business in Latin America by John D. Wirth Pdf

Essays covering five case studies to gain an insight into the unique Latin American approach to petroleum resources and industries.

Author : George Grayson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822974239

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The Politics of Mexican Oil by George Grayson Pdf

The Mexican oil boom of the 1970s brought great hope and prosperity with it. George Grayson shows the influence of oil and the oil sector both within Mexican society and in its relations with other nations. He traces the development of the oil industry from its beginnings in 1901 up until the 1980s, looking at topics that include the history of expropriation; the creation of the state-run company Petróleos Mexicanos; graft and corruption within the Oil Workers Union; Mexico's relations with OPEC; the political nuances of oil and gas agreements with the United States; and the prospects for the Mexican oil industry and domestic reforms generated from oil revenue.

Author : Gustavo Flores-Macias
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108474573

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The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America by Gustavo Flores-Macias Pdf

Offers a comprehensive, region-wide analysis of the politics of taxation in Latin America to make reforms politically palatable and sustainable.

Author : Suzana Sawyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822385752

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Crude Chronicles by Suzana Sawyer Pdf

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements. Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality—that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging—as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.

Author : Rómulo Betancourt
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035780340

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Venezuela, Oil and Politics by Rómulo Betancourt Pdf

Author : Allen Gerlach
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0842051082

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Indians, Oil, and Politics by Allen Gerlach Pdf

An attorney and independent scholar, Albuquerque-based Gerlach lived in Peru and Ecuador for several years, and taught at the Centro Andino in Quito. He reviews Ecuador's history during the last half millennium, in particular its evolution during the past 30-plus years following the discovery of oil in the Amazon in the 1960s and subsequent development of the country's oil industry. Gerlach's study demonstrates the increasing interrelations between politics, economics, culture, the environment, finance, and diplomacy in the country. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : John-Andrew McNeish,Axel Borchgrevink,Owen Logan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783600946

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Contested Powers by John-Andrew McNeish,Axel Borchgrevink,Owen Logan Pdf

In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources. Not only does it promise a more stable and sustainable future, but an economy focused on intellectual property is more environmentally friendly, so it is suggested. Contested Powers argues that the fixes being offered by this model are bluffs; development as witnessed in Latin American energy politics and governance remains hindered by a global division of labour and nature that puts the capacity for technological advancement in private hands. The authors call for a multi-layered understanding of sovereignty, arguing that it holds the key to undermining rigid accounts of the relationship between carbon and democracy, energy and development, and energy and political expression. Furthermore, a critical focus on energy politics is crucial to wider debates on development and sustainability. Contested Powers is essential reading for those wondering how energy resources are converted into political power and why we still value the energy we take from our surroundings more than the means of its extraction.

Author : Anthony Bebbington,Jeffrey Bury
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780292748644

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Subterranean Struggles by Anthony Bebbington,Jeffrey Bury Pdf

Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America’s extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this expansion and the sociopolitical, environmental, and political economic consequences it has wrought. In this analysis, more than a dozen experts explore the many facets of struggles surrounding extraction, from protests in the vicinity of extractive operations to the everyday efforts of excluded residents who try to adapt their livelihoods while industries profoundly impact their lived spaces. The book explores the implications of extractive industry for ideas of nature, region, and nation; “resource nationalism” and environmental governance; conservation, territory, and indigenous livelihoods in the Amazon and Andes; everyday life and livelihood in areas affected by small- and large-scale mining alike; and overall patterns of social mobilization across the region. Arguing that such struggles are an integral part of the new extractive economy in Latin America, the authors document the increasingly conflictive character of these interactions, raising important challenges for theory, for policy, and for social research methodologies. Featuring works by social and natural science authors, this collection offers a broad synthesis of the dynamics of extractive industry whose relevance stretches to regions beyond Latin America.

Author : Jonathan Hartlyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718076

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Latin American Political Economy by Jonathan Hartlyn Pdf

This book considers the historical and contemporary determinants of the financial crisis facing Latin America from a political economy perspective and compares the effects of and responses to the crisis in a number of countries. It discusses the internal policy errors that led to financial blow-ups.

Author : Rigoberto Ariel Yépez-García,Julie Dana
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821395776

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Mitigating Vulnerability to High and Volatile Oil Prices by Rigoberto Ariel Yépez-García,Julie Dana Pdf

The unprecedented rise in world oil prices over the past decade has created greater economic uncertainty and higher risk introduced by oil price volatility. Countries with a high proportion of oil in their primary energy supply are especially vulnerable. At both macro and micro levels, such countries may suffer serious effects, ranging from short-term to permanent changes that hinder potential growth and international competitiveness. Mitigating Vulnerability to High and Volatile Oil Prices: Power Sector Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean offers an assessment of how these countries can better cope with high and volatile oil prices. The book first analyzes the economic effects of high and volatile prices on oil-importing countries, with emphasis on power sector experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. Second, it proposes complementary measures that can be applied using a multi-horizon strategy. To manage price risk, various physical and financial hedging tools are available to governments of oil-importing countries. To reduce oil dependence over the longer term, the book proposes implementing three structural measures: a more diversified electricity generation matrix, better energy efficiency in electricity production and use, and regional integration with more diversified power systems. Finally, the book quantifies some of the macro- and micro-level benefits that could result from implementing these measures. In the subregions examined, significant savings in the cost of fuel purchases-up to 5 percent of gross domestic product-could accrue to heavily oil-dependent countries. The aggregate effect would not only be a reduction in energy expenditures. It would mean less vulnerability to the impact of high and volatile oil prices. While much of the book's analysis refers to Central America and the Caribbean, the underlying principles of the policy recommendations can be applied to any oil-importing country seeking to mitigate vulnerability to high and volatile oil prices.

Author : Benedicte Bull,Mariel Cristina Aguilar-Stoen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317653783

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Environmental Politics in Latin America by Benedicte Bull,Mariel Cristina Aguilar-Stoen Pdf

Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, struggles to protect the environment from over-exploitation and contamination have been related to marginalized groups’ struggles against local, national and transnational elites. The recent rise of progressive, left-leaning governments – often supported by groups struggling for environmental justice – has challenged the established elites and raised expectations about new regimes for natural resource management. Based on case-studies in eight Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, El Salvador and Guatemala), this book investigates the extent to which there have been elite shifts, how new governments have related to old elites, and how that has impacted on environmental governance and the management of natural resources. It examines the rise of new cadres of technocrats and the old economic and political elites’ struggle to remain influential. The book also discusses the challenges faced in trying to overcome structural inequalities to ensure a more sustainable and equitable governance of natural resources. This timely book will be of great interest to researchers and masters students in development studies, environmental management and governance, geography, political science and Latin American area studies.

Author : Flora Lu,Gabriela Valdivia,Néstor L. Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137533623

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Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia by Flora Lu,Gabriela Valdivia,Néstor L. Silva Pdf

This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador’s recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature’s rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration’s Revolución Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution—the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country’s most marginalized peoples—to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.