Papers by Augusto Heras
Fossil fuels, stranded assets, and the energy transition in the Global South: A systematic literature review
WIREs Climate Change
Complying with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change requires leaving fossil fuels underground (L... more Complying with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change requires leaving fossil fuels underground (LFFU), which raises justice issues regarding the Global South and its energy transition. The literature is scattered with no review papers on the challenges of LFFU in the Global South, hence we ask: What can be learnt from reviewing the scholarship on the Global South's energy transition, focusing on LFFU and the issue of stranded resources and assets? Our review reveals: (a) renewable investments in the Global South are relatively low for the scale of change needed, and such renewable deployment is more additive than substitutive. Nonetheless, there is potential for the Global South to leapfrog; (b) literature on LFFU in the Global South is limited, and much of it focuses on subsidies. However, developing countries might include stranded assets in their accounting, making LFFU appealing; (c) the Right to Development influences the energy transition's governance and justice issue...
Thesis Chapters by Augusto Heras
Master's dissertation in International Relations and diplomatic affairs.
This work carries out a... more Master's dissertation in International Relations and diplomatic affairs.
This work carries out an analysis of Argentina's economic structure over the last 140 years.
A historical-descriptive investigation is presented, focusing at first on the industrialization process during the primary-exporter model (1880-1930) and the subsequent model of industrialization by import substitution (1930-1976), emphasizing the problems of external restriction and of the so-called stop-and-go cycles.
Next, the deindustrialisation process, inaugurated by the National Reorganisation Process of the military dictatorship of 1976-1983, is examined, up to the presidency of Mauricio Macri that ended in December 2019. Deindustrialisation is understood both in quantitative terms, as a decrease in the relative weight of industry in the economy and employment, and in qualitative terms, as a transformation of its internal structure and role in the economic development process, with negative effects on income distribution and socioeconomic inequalities. In this way, two simultaneously parallel and consequential phenomena are examined: the dismantling and concentration of the industrial apparatus together with the reprimarization of exports.
Finally, combining the historical-descriptive analysis with a quantitative methodology (time series and productivity decomposition), the causes, rooted mainly in the macroeconomic, industrial and income distribution policies applied, are discussed in order to analyse the consequences in more detail: the premature deindustrialisation of the productive structure compared to today's advanced economies, the lack of structural change and the specialisation in traditional low-productivity services.
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Papers by Augusto Heras
Thesis Chapters by Augusto Heras
This work carries out an analysis of Argentina's economic structure over the last 140 years.
A historical-descriptive investigation is presented, focusing at first on the industrialization process during the primary-exporter model (1880-1930) and the subsequent model of industrialization by import substitution (1930-1976), emphasizing the problems of external restriction and of the so-called stop-and-go cycles.
Next, the deindustrialisation process, inaugurated by the National Reorganisation Process of the military dictatorship of 1976-1983, is examined, up to the presidency of Mauricio Macri that ended in December 2019. Deindustrialisation is understood both in quantitative terms, as a decrease in the relative weight of industry in the economy and employment, and in qualitative terms, as a transformation of its internal structure and role in the economic development process, with negative effects on income distribution and socioeconomic inequalities. In this way, two simultaneously parallel and consequential phenomena are examined: the dismantling and concentration of the industrial apparatus together with the reprimarization of exports.
Finally, combining the historical-descriptive analysis with a quantitative methodology (time series and productivity decomposition), the causes, rooted mainly in the macroeconomic, industrial and income distribution policies applied, are discussed in order to analyse the consequences in more detail: the premature deindustrialisation of the productive structure compared to today's advanced economies, the lack of structural change and the specialisation in traditional low-productivity services.
This work carries out an analysis of Argentina's economic structure over the last 140 years.
A historical-descriptive investigation is presented, focusing at first on the industrialization process during the primary-exporter model (1880-1930) and the subsequent model of industrialization by import substitution (1930-1976), emphasizing the problems of external restriction and of the so-called stop-and-go cycles.
Next, the deindustrialisation process, inaugurated by the National Reorganisation Process of the military dictatorship of 1976-1983, is examined, up to the presidency of Mauricio Macri that ended in December 2019. Deindustrialisation is understood both in quantitative terms, as a decrease in the relative weight of industry in the economy and employment, and in qualitative terms, as a transformation of its internal structure and role in the economic development process, with negative effects on income distribution and socioeconomic inequalities. In this way, two simultaneously parallel and consequential phenomena are examined: the dismantling and concentration of the industrial apparatus together with the reprimarization of exports.
Finally, combining the historical-descriptive analysis with a quantitative methodology (time series and productivity decomposition), the causes, rooted mainly in the macroeconomic, industrial and income distribution policies applied, are discussed in order to analyse the consequences in more detail: the premature deindustrialisation of the productive structure compared to today's advanced economies, the lack of structural change and the specialisation in traditional low-productivity services.