Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development ─ Lessons from Latin America

This issue of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and development trajectories in Latin America, focusing on the Andean region. It aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them.

Gilles Carbonnier is Professor of Development Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva (Switzerland); Editor-in-Chief, International Development Policy; and President, Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action. His research focuses on international development cooperation, as well as the governance of natural resources and illicit financial flows. His latest book is entitled Humanitarian Economics: War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market (London & New York: Hurst & Oxford University Press, 2016).Humberto Campodonico is a Principal Researcher at the Center for the Study and Promotion of Development (Centro de Estudios y Promocion del Desarrollo, DESCO), Lima (Peru) and has served as Dean and as Professor of the Faculty of Economics, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. From 2011 to 2012, he served as the President of the National Oil Company, Petroperu. He is presently a member of the Advisory Council of the Natural Resources Governance Institute (NRGI) and a Fellow of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI). He has published several books about mining, energy (oil, natural gas), international economics, and trade.Sergio Tezanos Vazquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), President of the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES) and Vice-President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). His main research fields are human development (with a focus on international development taxonomies), international cooperation policies (with emphasis on the effectiveness and allocation of Official Development Assistance, ODA), and international migration (from developing countries to developed countries).