Enrique Dussel Peters

GCCs and Development: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

As a framework for analyzing the organization of the global economy and its implications for local development, the GCC approach is of significant theoretical and empirical relevance to GCC as a methodology. Thus far, it has had an important effect in interdisciplinary studies and has enriched substantially policy discussions about competitiveness in global chains and local upgrading. However, I argue that the GCC literature would benefit from a dialogue with other approaches to development, including schools such as dependency theory. My critique of the GCC literature is developed through an analysis of the yarn–textile–garment GCC in Mexico, which underscores its lack of territorial endogeneity, since Mexicos participation in this chain remains concentrated in processes of temporary imports to be exported. In spite of Mexicos success in the post-NAFTA period, since 2000 Asian, especially Chinese, products have massively displaced its exports of apparel to the US market.

The Auto Parts-Automotive Chain in Mexico and China: Co-operation Potential?

Mexicos economic relationship with China has intensified substantially in the last decade. Based on an increasing literature on the overall and aggregate relationship, this analysis proposes a detailed examination of the auto parts-automobile chain, which is of utmost importance for both countries and will be significant for understanding the future trade relationship between them. In order to understand the industrial organization of Mexico and China, the article first gives an overview of the international trade and industrial organization patterns. After establishing the characteristics of Mexicos and Chinas legal framework, production, employment and trade, the analysis concludes with a group of proposals to improve binational co-operation. Both countries – China interested in increasing its export platform based on Chinese parts brands and Mexico supplying parts and components and providing decades of experiences in international networks – can benefit from these suggestions and overcome current tensions.

Latin America and the Caribbean and China. Socioeconomic Debates on Trade and Investment and the case of CELAC

Based on the increasing presence of China in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), this chapter focuses on the regional experience of LAC with China and the socioeconomic structures that have emerged as a result of this relationship since 2000. The goal of this chapter is to analyze the current socioeconomic structures, particularly in trade and investments, between LAC and China, as well as to provide a group of policy suggestions for this future dialogue. The first part of the chapter reviews the main structures in trade and investments that have emerged since 2000. The second section focuses on the causes, and particularly on the main results of the First Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Cooperation Forum in 2015. The third and last part of the chapter reflects on a group of policy proposals that should be integrated into the discussion between LAC and China, also in CELAC.

La economía China desde la crisis internacional en 2008: estrategias, políticas y tendencias

The economy has gone through a series of events that could be classified as of high uncertainty, rapid change and crisis. Its effects on income distribution, employment and wages have been particularly significant and its aftermath have generated global instability and uncertainty. The prc appears to do better rid of these rearrangements and has increasingly become an active global player on that have accumulated high expectations for resolving international crises such. Therefore examines the strategies and policies that China has taken since 2007-2008, the main macroeconomic and sectoral trends that have emerged since then, and the expectations in the medium and long term. It analyzes the main conditions of its economy, its strategies and policies and their proposals at the macroeconomic level, as foreign direct investment and international and domestic factors that will be significant for the economy in the context of the international crisis that still exists.