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2025
Eleni Yitbarek, Wondimagegn Tesfaye
From Farm to Market: Impacts of Climate Shocks on Selected Agricultura...
While many of the studies to date have focused on the production end of the value chain—i.e., ways to help farmers grow more food, there is limited evidence regard...
2025
Yazeed Abdul Mumin, Williams Ali
Global Value Chains and Income Inequality in Africa...
Recent technological advances and policy initiatives present Africa with enormous growth potential from participating in global value chains (GVCs). However, the wid...
2025
Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé
Institutional Drivers of Global Value Chains Participation in African ...
Despite the expansion of global value chains (GVCs) over the last three decades, African countries trail the other developing regions in terms of GVC integration. Ye...
2025
Asmaa Ezzat, Chahir Zaki
An Empirical Assessment of the Nexus Between Competition Policy and Gl...
Efficient institutions matter in promoting Global Value Chains (GVCs) participation since they help reduce transaction costs for firms that engage in trade. Competit...
2024
Aleksandra Kordalska, Magdalena Olcyk...
Upgrading low value-added activities in global value chains: a functio...
This paper aims to identify patterns of functional specialisation (FS) in global value chains (GVCs) and determinants of upgrading them for selected Central Eastern ...
2024
Aleksandra Kordalska, Magdalena Olcyk...
Linkages between services and manufacturing as a new channel for GVC d...
The goal of the paper is to verify a causal relationship between forward linkages from domestic services to manufacturing and the participation/position of a country...
2024
Elizabeth A. Bennett
Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A Squandered Opportunity to Improv...
The sustainable development agenda has long been linked with social justice, income equality, and workers' rights. This article argues that voluntary sustainability ...
2024
Elizabeth A. Bennett
Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not ...
Voluntary Sustainability Standards-Setting Organizations (VSSSOs) create standards to improve the social and/or environmental impacts of globalized production networ...
2024
Elizabeth A. Bennett
Voluntary sustainability standards, employee ownership, and the sustai...
Employee ownership (EO), broadly defined, refers to business models that distribute power and/or profit more widely than conventional firms. EO aims to foster a more...
2024
Elizabeth A. Bennett
Which Fair Trade principles travel to distant sectors? An analysis of ...
Social enterprises, social entrepreneurship and sustainable business models are increasingly common in sectors where Fair Trade does not have a strong presence (e.g....
