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Mining and industrialisation

Featured Publications

 

Business of the State: Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance

Jewellord T. Nem Singh · Oxford University Press, 2024

As decarbonisation accelerates, mineral-rich states in the Global South are called on to supply the critical minerals of the energy transition. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork on Chile’s Codelco and Brazil’s Petrobras, the book shows how a hybrid strategy — market-friendly policies to attract investment combined with reinvigorated state-owned enterprises — can turn resource sectors into platforms for innovation and industrial development, if SOEs are subjected to effective governance reforms.

From Extraction to Value Addition: How Capabilities and Power Shape Local Supplier Development

Anabel Marin and Jose Morales · Institute of Development Studies, 2025

Moving up the value chain is the central promise of critical minerals for producing countries — but it rarely happens automatically. This study examines how local capabilities and power relations between firms, states and lead companies determine whether domestic suppliers can capture more value from mining.

Litio argentino: oportunidades, tecnologías y políticas para desarrollar su cadena de valor

Anabel Marin, Diego Murguía and Katia Itoiz · CENIT-EEyN-UNSAM, 2024

A detailed mapping of Argentina’s lithium sector: the technologies in play, the opportunities for building a domestic value chain, and the policies needed to move beyond raw extraction in one of the world’s key lithium producers.

Innovation opportunities and backward linkages in mining: an analysis of Argentinean knowledge-intensive mining suppliers (KIMS)

Lilia Stubrin, Anabel Marin and Diego Murguía · Industrial and Corporate Change, 2023

Mining is often dismissed as an enclave with few spillovers. This article documents the emergence of knowledge-intensive local suppliers around Argentina’s mines, showing the conditions under which extraction can seed innovative domestic industries.

Further Publications

Jewellord Nem Singh

  • Developmental States beyond East Asia(Routledge, 2019), co-edited with J. Ovadia.
  • Resource Governance and Developmental States in the Global South(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), co-edited with F. Bourgouin.
  • Handbook of Resource Nationalism(Edward Elgar, 2026), co-edited with J.S. Ovadia and R. Saunders.
  • ‘The Advance of the State and the Renewal of Industrial Policy in the Age of Strategic Competition’, Third World Quarterly(2023).
  • ‘The Politics of Designing and Negotiating Industrial Policy in the 21st Century’, special issue, Third World Quarterly(2023).
  • ‘The Theory and Practice of Building Developmental States in the Global South’, Third World Quarterly(2018), with J. Ovadia.
  • ‘State-owned Enterprises and the Political Economy of State–State Relations in the Developing World’, Third World Quarterly(2018), with C.F. Chen.
  • ‘Industrial Policy and State-Making: Brazil’s Attempt at Oil-based Industrial Development’, Third World Quarterly(2018), with E. Massi.
  • ‘Resource Governance and Norm Domestication in the Global South’, special issue, Environmental Policy and Governance(2020), with K. MacDonald.
  • ‘Debating Unconventional Energy: Social, Political and Economic Implications’, Annual Review of Environment and Resources(2017), with K. Neville et al.
  • ‘Towards Post-neoliberal Resource Politics? The International Political Economy of Oil and Copper in Brazil and Chile’, New Political Economy(2014).
  • ‘Reconstituting the Neostructuralist State: The Political Economy of Continuity and Change in Chilean Mining Policy’, Third World Quarterly(2010).
  • ‘Governing the Extractive Sector: The Politics of Globalisation and Copper Policy in Chile’, Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies(2010).
  • ‘Natural Resources’, in Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
  • ‘Governing Natural Resources’, in Handbook of Latin American Governance(Routledge, 2018).
  • ‘Neoliberalism, Resource Governance and the Everyday Politics of Protests in the Philippines’, in The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia(Cambridge University Press, 2016), with A. Camba.
  • ‘Evolving Forms of Resource Nationalism and State Ownership in the CRM Sector – Implications for EU Cooperation Strategy’, FEPS (2026).
  • ‘Renewing Industrial Policy: A Strategic Path to Economic Development in the Global South?’, Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains (2024).
  • ‘The (Local) Costs of Reducing our Dependency on Imported Raw Materials’, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability (2022).
  • ‘Mining Our Way out of the Climate Change Conundrum? The Power of a Social Justice Perspective’, Wilson Center (2021).
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Anabel Marín

 

Related Projects（Marín）

  • Operationalising Trade Reforms and Strengthening Trade–Climate Linkages in ADB Operations (TA-10335 REG), Critical Minerals Expert, Asian Development Bank, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (2025–2026).
  • Rapid Assessment of Diversification Opportunities in Critical Minerals, Advisor, UNCTAD — mapping value-addition pathways in Zambia, Namibia and Madagascar (2025–2026).
  • Evaluating Chile’s Sustainable Productive Development Programme (DPS), Lead Researcher, IDB and Chile’s Ministry of Economy (2025).
  • Tracing Risks, Driving Change: Building Inclusive Trade in EV Value Chains, Principal Investigator, IDS, funded by the CITP Innovation Fund (2026).
  • Lithium and Territorial Development in Argentina, Principal Investigator, CENIT, funded by ECLAC (2023).
  • Inputs to Change Mining Investment and Environmental Laws in Argentina, Project Leader, CENIT, funded by the Ministry of Production (2020).
  • Innovation and Competitiveness in Mining Value Chains: Copper in Brazil and Argentina, Lead Researcher, CENIT, funded by the IDB (2018–2019).
  • Extractive Industries in the 21st Century: Transformation in Latin America, Project Leader, funded by IDRC (2016–2018).