India from Latin America

Join us to listen to Dr. Manuel Gonzalo, discussing his new book "India from Latin America. Peripherisation, Statebuilding, and Demand-Led Growth."

Abstract

In this talk, Manuel is going to discuss India and the Indian subcontinent path of development based on his book titled "India from Latin America. Peripherisation, Statebuilding, and Demand-Led Growth". The book studies the economic history of India and traces the Indian path of development from a Latin American framework and perspective, contributing to building a common research agenda for the economic development of the Global South.

Biography

Manuel Gonzalo graduated with magna cum laude in economics from UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Argentina. He has a master’s degree in economics and industrial development from UNGS (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento), Argentina and a doctoral degree in economics from UFRJ (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro), Brazil. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Degree on Development Economics of the UNQ (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes), Associate Professor at the school of economics of UNDEC (Universidad Nacional de Chilecito), and Co-Coordinator at the South Asia working group of CARI (Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales). He has 20 years of experience in doing research, fieldworks, and giving classes and lectures at different universities of Argentina, Brazil, and India, mainly on comparative development, innovation and entrepreneurial systems, and industrial, STI and international cooperation policy. He was visiting researcher at the Center for Development Studies (CDS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Kerala, India, and at the Research Network on Local Productive and Innovative Systems (Redesist), Economics Institute (IE), UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He assesses Latin American governments, firms, think tanks, and international organisms in building their relationship with India, South Asia, and the Global South. He published the book titled "India from Latin America: Peripherization, Statebuilding, and Demand-Led Growth" with Routledge.

Format

Dr. Gonzalo will speak for about 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.