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Some scholars assume that green developmental states are emerging but their work do not specify what is their state capacity and where are these states. To fill this gap, this contribution provides an index capturing the content and the scope of green developmentalism in Colombia, France and Uganda

Paper long abstract

Ban on the export of “critical minerals” for the energy transition in Malaysia and Indonesia, Green New Deal in South Korea, ban on second-hand clothes imports in Rwanda, green industrial policies in Brazil and South Africa, the last decade has been characterized by a series of policy actions that seem to signal a “return of the State”, especially regarding ecological transition and climate policies. Some scholars have depicted this eventual return of the state as the emergence of ‘green developmental states’ (Dent, 2018; Kim and Thurbon, 2015). The latter has so far been characterized as a state combining the dismantling of polluting economic sectors with the creation of new “green” market segments(Thurbon et al , 2023: 6). , 2023: 6). While this literature has been helpful to capture specific policies in specific geographical contexts, there are still research gaps when it comes to assess if there is a world-wide diffusion of green developmental state approaches and how specific are they compared to former developmental states and other state configurations. My contribution aims to address these shortcomings with an index that specifies and objectifies what is a green developmental state. To do so, I will highlight the operationalisation of this indicator with the cases of Colombia, France and Uganda, for which the coding of all variables and the aggregate scores of the indicator will be detailed. The latter will show the extent of the presence and absence of green developmentalism within the three cases.