This Extractivism Policy Brief 08/2024 argues that:
- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico hold a considerable share of lithium reserves globally.
- These countries developed specific policies to increase the contribution of lithium rents to national economic growth.
- Lithium policy in Latin America presents operative differences related to the state’s protagonism in promoting extraction.
- The weakness of these policies is prioritizing rent capture instead of the development of technology-based competitive advantages and neglecting collaborative regional potentialities.
Authors:
Bruno Milanez is an industrial engineer with a PhD in Environmental Policy from Lincoln University in New Zealand. His research includes mining policies, institutional strategies of mining corporations in Brazil, environmental conflicts linked to extractive projects, and impacts of mineral extraction on the energy transition.
Felix M. Dorn is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. He studied international economic studies at Innsbruck University and the National University of Córdoba. His PhD in geography thesis focused on political ecology and analyzed the social-ecological conflicts surrounding lithium mining in Argentina and Chile.
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.17170/kobra-2024082710725
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