Alt. Convocation: China’s Economic Role in Latin America and Africa

Eva Paus is Professor of Economics, member of the International Relations Program, and Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. In recent years, she has worked on issues that impact developing countries' ability to expand their knowledge-based assets for effective structural change up the value curve, mainly with a focus on Latin America: (1) the conditions under which developing countries can incorporate foreign investment into the increase of domestic technological capabilities; (2) the external and internal constraints on governments' policy space for adopting a pro-development strategy; and (3) the impact of the rise of China on Latin America's ability to escape the middle income trap.

Her recent publications in this area include “Mobilizing Public Resources for a New Development Strategy in the Age of Globalization: The Fiscal Space Dilemma in Latin America,” in Shahrukh Khan and Jens Christiansen. eds. Markets as Means, Not Master: Towards a New Developmentalism. London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming (with Luis Abugattas);  "The Impact of the Rise of China on Latin American Development," Development Policy Review, April 2009;  Global Giant. Is China Changing the Rules of the Game? (co-edited with Penelope Prime and Jon Western, 2009, Palgrave Macmillan); Global Capitalism Unbound: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing (ed., 2007, Palgrave Macmillan);   Foreign Investment, Globalization and Development: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? (2005, Palgrave Macmillan).