ABSTRACT
This comparative chapter seeks to extrapolate Mexico’s experiences to two other developing countries: Brazil and India. This chapter will therefore look to underscore how, amid differentiated economic and democratic transitions, subnational units of government deployed similar multileveled strategies of industrialisation to trigger their economic development.
The guiding questions are the following: What were the strategies that contributed to achieving an industrial transformation across these varying countries? And how did multilevel characteristics affect these strategies within countries that are so vastly populated and territorially extensive? In order to explore possible answers to these questions, I have considered two subnational case studies, from Brazil and India, which have been covered already to varying degrees in the developmental literature with distinct traits and themes: Minas Gerais, in the case of Brazil, and Gujarat, in the case of India.
Likewise, it will refer to “failed” or “negative cases” of policy transformation from below in an effort to diagnose what variables or factors were either missing or deficient, and which generated as a consequence a failed implementation of a developmental strategy at the subnational level.
