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Forthcoming
Andrew Bernard, Emmanuel Dhyne, Glenn Magerman, Kalina Manova, Andreas Moxnes
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
This paper explores firm size heterogeneity in production networks. Using all buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper shows that firms with more customers havehigher total sales but lower sales per customer and lower market shares among thosecustomers. A decomposition of firm sales reveal...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Mining
Services
EU / Western Europe
Energy
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2024
Johannes Jäger, Ewa Dziwok (Eds.)
Understanding Green Finance: A Critical Assessment and Alternative Perspectives
Exploring how green finance has become a key strategy for the financial industry in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis, this timely book critically assesses the current dominant forms of neoliberal green finance. Understanding Green Finance delivers a pioneering analysis of the topic, covering...
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2024
Caio Torres Mazzi, Gideon Ndubuisi, Elvis Avendo
Learning-by-exporting in South Africa: The influence of global value chain (GVC) participation and technological capability
Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009–2017, this paper investigates how trade related to the global value chain (GVC) affects the performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. The paper uses extant classifications of internationally trad...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2024
Federico Colozza, Carlo Pietrobelli, Antonio Vezzani
Do global value chains spread knowledge and pollution? evidence from EU regions
In this paper we investigate the relationship between participation in global value chains and the environment from a spatial perspective. By drawing on an original dataset on global value chain participation, emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides, and green patents for European regions, w...
Environment and climate change
EU / Western Europe
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2024
Sarosh Kuruvilla, Jason Judd
Measuring Supply Chain Due Diligence: Labor Outcomes Metrics
In due diligence and accountability regimes, how will regulators and lead firms themselves know who is harming workers or running big risks for the environment? And, how will the rest of us— business partners, (including upstream suppliers), workers and their unions, investors and researchers—kn...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2024
Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, Teresa C. Fort, Felix Tintelnot
Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity: Theory and Evidence from the United States
Multinational firms (MNEs) dominate trade flows, yet their foreign production decisions are often ignored in firm-level studies of exporting and importing. Using newly merged data on US firms' trade and global production, we show that MNEs are more likely to trade with countries that are proximate t...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
North America
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2024
Abdul A. Erumban and Gaaitzen J. de Vries
Structural change and poverty reduction in developing economies
This paper presents an empirical framework that explores the relationship between poverty reduction and changes in the production structure of developing countries. We use the new GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure productivity growth within sectors and structural change – ...
Agriculture and food
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
South Asia
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2024
Tilmann Altenburg and Anne Kantel
Green Hydrogen in Namibia: Opportunities and Risks
Namibia is a highly competitive location for solar and wind energy, which can be utilised to produce green hydrogen and derivatives that are essential for decarbonising the global economy. Its government therefore has high hopes for this entire industrial complex, as do several European countries in...
Sub-saharan Africa
Energy
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2024
Philipp Herkenhoff, Sebastian Krautheim, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich
Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain
Locating substantial parts of the production process in developing and emerging economies, many firms face an increasing demand by stakeholders for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their value chains. Contractual incompleteness between firms and their suppliers at different stages of prod...
Trade and FDI
South Asia
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2024
Rym Ayadi, Giorgia Giovannetti, Enrico Marvasi, Chahir Zaki
Trade networks and the productivity of MENA firms in global value chains
Global Value Chain (GVC) participation is typically associated with a productivity premium, yet similar firms can benefit differently depending on the possibility for creating production linkages offered by their countries’ involvement in trade. We show that country-sector intermediate trade netwo...
Trade and FDI
The Middle East and North Africa
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2024
Peter Dannenberg, Boris Braun, Clemens Greiner, Alexander Follmann, Michaela Haug, Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono, Markus Stetter, Thomas Widlok, Stanislav Kopriva
Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security
In the context of multiple crises, policymakers and practitioners prioritize the solving of certain challenges above others. In this context, supposedly purely environmental challenges like biodiversity loss have often been deprioritized and solutions to tackle them are publicly or quietly postponed...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
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2024
Inga Carry
Critical Raw Materials Partner Canada: An (almost) Perfect Match
The European Union (EU) is aiming to strengthen its cooperation with like-minded countries to secure its supply of so-called critical raw materials. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen considers Canada a “perfect match” – a resource-rich and reliable partner that shares the EU...
Mining
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
North America
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2024
Gabriel Felbermayr, Klaus Friesenbichler, Markus Gerschberger, Peter Klimek, Birgit Meyer
Designing EU Supply Chain Regulation
The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence has sparked fierce debate about the regulation of supply chains. The directive’s objectives are aligned with European values. However, it raises concerns that the compliance costs of social and environmental regulations may be privatised in c...
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2024
Birgit Meyer
Nachhaltigkeit entlang globaler Lieferketten – Wirtschaftliche Effekte der EU-Richtlinie für Sorgfaltspflichten von Unternehmen
Mit der Initiative zur Richtlinie über die Sorgfaltspflicht von Unternehmen im Hinblick auf Nachhaltigkeit (Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive – CSDDD) hat die EU einen wichtigen Schritt unternommen, um verantwortungsbewusstes Handeln von Unternehmen über die Grenzen der EU hinaus zu ...
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2024
Yvonne Wolfmayr, Elisabeth Christen, Hendrik Mahlkow, Birgit Meyer, Michael Pfaffermayr
Trade and Welfare Effects of New Trade Policy Instruments
Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are designed to protect the internal market against unfair trade practices, coercive actions as well as to ensure sustainable supply chains and the protection of human rights. The study exten...
EU / Western Europe
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello, and Guillermo Noguera
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments
Do suppliers' margins in global value chains depend on buyers' approach to sourcing? We distinguish between international buyers adopting relational versus spot sourcing strategies in the Bangladeshi garment sector. Our data allow us to match inputs used by exporters to produce specific orders for d...
Trade and FDI
South Asia
Energy
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2023
Jennifer Bair, Matthew C Mahutga
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors
The relationship between power, governance and value creation/capture is a central concern in global value chain (GVC) research. In the context of calls to develop a more expansive view of power in GVCs, we argue for retaining a focus on bargaining power, but shifting the conceptualization of bargai...
Trade and FDI
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Jennifer Bair, Stefano Ponte, Leonard Seabrooke, and Duncan Wigan.
Entangled chains of global value and wealth
In recent decades multinational enterprises have developed ways to reorganize production and trade through Global Value Chains (GVCs), and to manage assets and liabilities through Global Wealth Chains (GWCs). This co-evolution has permitted the hyper-extraction of labor and natural resources through...
Trade and FDI
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2023
Melanie Müller, Christina Saulich, Meike Schulze, and Svenja Schöneich
From Competition to a Sustainable Raw Materials Diplomacy
German and European businesses are highly dependent on metals. Demand for these raw materials is expected to grow even further as they will be needed for the green energy and electric mobility transition, digitalisation and other emerging technologies. Geopolitical developments influence securi...
Sub-saharan Africa
Mining
East Asia and Pacific
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
Latin America
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2023
Inga Carry, Melanie Müller, and Nadine Godehardt
The Future of European-Chinese Raw Material Supply Chains
When it comes to being supplied with raw materials, Europe faces a number of challenges. These include the diversification of European supply chains, the implementation of effective sustainability standards, and the reduction of strategic dependencies on China. What will European-Chinese raw mater...
Mining
East Asia and Pacific
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
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2023
Mike Morris
Chinese Firms and Adherence to Global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Standards in Developing Countries: Is there Potential to Create Common Ground?
This paper focuses on analysing how Chinese firms operate in Latin America, Asia and Africa in regard to ESG (environmental, social and governance) standards and sustainability issues. How do they respond to the increasing global value chain requirement to incorporate and maintain ESG standards? Is ...
Sub-saharan Africa
East Asia and Pacific
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
Latin America
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2023
Nora Aboushady, Chahir Zaki
Are Global Value Chains for Sale? On Business-State Relations in the MENA Region
We use new data on political connections from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to examine the impact of connections on firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs) for six MENA countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Lebanon). In addition to political connect...
Trade and FDI
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Penny Bamber, Karina Fernandez-Stark, Oswaldo Molina
Innovation and competitiveness in the copper-mining GVC: developing local suppliers in Peru
Although Peru is one of the main producers of copper worldwide, the domestic industry has not yet fully taken advantage of the potential that the exploitation of this commodity offers. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges that Peruvian suppliers face in their insertion into the minin...
Mining
Latin America
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2023
Penny Bamber & Karina Fernandez-Stark
Digital Technologies in the Mining GVCs: A Path to Reduce Gender Gaps in the Industry
Mining
Latin America
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2023
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor & Maria-Therese Gustafsson
Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws
Binding regulations have, recently, emerged in the Global North with the aim of holding companies accountable for environmental and/or human rights impacts throughout their supply chains. This article develops and applies an analytical framework to analyze corporate accountability dynamics in global...
Agriculture and food
Sustainability standards
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2023
Almut Schilling Vacaflor & Andrea Lenschow
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest-risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy-making processes at ...
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Svenja Schöneich, Christina Saulich, and Melanie Müller
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains
Industrialized economies in the EU depend heavily on imports of minerals. The extraction and parts of the transport and processing of these minerals take place in the Global South and often bear high human rights and environmental risks. A lack of traceability in mineral supply chains makes it parti...
Mining
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2023
Ben Shepherd
Regional integration and services in African value chains: Retrospect and prospect
This article takes a first step towards understanding the quantitative evidence on the role of services in African value chains. The available data are largely based on assumptions and modelled estimates, but can nonetheless provide some useful information at an aggregate level. In general, services...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Services
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2023
Johannes Jäger, Gonzalo Duran, Lukas Schmidt
Expected economic effects of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
This study assesses the possible economic impacts of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU CSDDD). On the theoretical level, perspectives from neoclassical economics are combined with the value chain approach, and with the power resources perspective. Empirically, this study...
EU / Western Europe
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Angela Heucher, Judith Ihl, Michèle Kiefer, Marcus Kaplan, Steffen Schmok, Kathrin Wolf
The Promotion of Sustainable Supply Chains Through German Development Cooperation Based on the Example of the Textile Sector
German development cooperation is pursuing the objective of reducing negative social and environmental effects in global (textile) supply chains and thus, in the long term, contributing to designing them more sustainably. This evaluation examines, in particular, the interaction between various devel...
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Haiou Mao, Holger Görg, Guopei Fang
Time to say goodbye? The impact of environmental regulation on foreign divestment
We look at divestments by foreign firms – a topic that has received comparatively little attention in the literature – and investigate how changes in the regulatory environment in the host country may impact on such divestment decisions. We use the implementation of China’s Two Control Zone (T...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2023
Tekalign Gutu Sakketa
Urbanisation and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of pathways and impacts
This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with special emphasis to the pathways through which urbanisation affect rural economic development. Assessments of these effects diverge greatly. While s...
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Holger Görg, Anna JAcobs, Saskia Meuchelböck
Who is to suffer? Quantifying the impact of sanctions on German firms
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in response to the annexation of Crimea and Russia's countermeas...
Trade and FDI
EU / Western Europe
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2023
Janina Grabs and Rachael D. Garrett
Goal‑Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector
In response to stakeholder pressure, companies increasingly make ambitious forward-looking sustainability commitments. They then draw on corporate policies with varying degrees of alignment to disseminate and enforce corresponding behavioral rules among their suppliers and business partners. This go...
Agriculture and food
East Asia and Pacific
Sustainability standards
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2023
Andreas M. Fischer, Philipp Herkenhoff, Philipp Sauré
Identifying Chinese supply shocks: Effects on trade labor markets
An influential literature estimates the impact of trade on labor markets with shift-share instrumental variable designs under the assumption that common demand shocks in advanced economies are negligible. This article documents empirical patterns, which suggest that such common demand shocks are pre...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
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2023
Bernard Hoekman and Marco Sanfilippo
Trade and value chain participation: Domestic firms and FDI spillovers in Africa
Data on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects within and across African nations are com- bined with firm-level survey data and information on sectoral input–output relationships to assess what types of FDI are more likely to influence participation in global value chains (GVCs) ...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Leonardo Baccini, Arianna Bondi, Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman, Carlo Altomonte, Italo Colantone
Global Value Chains and the Design of Trade Agreements
We explore the role of global value chains (GVCs) in the design of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). We propose a theory that focuses on firms involved in backward and forward GVC activities to identify the main actors pushing for deep trade integration. To address the critical issue of endog...
Trade and FDI
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2023
Rachel Alexander and Aarti Krishnan
Upgrading Trajectories in South Africa: Exploring the Roles of Customer and Supplier Link Types in Manufacturers’ Economic, Social and Environmental Upgrading
This study explores determinants of firms’ economic, social and environmental upgrading and downgrading trajectories in South Africa, with a focus on the manufacturing sector. Specifically, it considers connections between firms’ buyer and supplier relationships and their upgrading outcomes. Dat...
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
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2023
Elisabetta Gentile, Rasmus Lema, Roberta Rabellotti, and Dalila Ribaudo
Greening Global Value Chains: A Conceptual Framework for Policy Action
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2023
Rasmus Lema and Roberta Rabellotti
The Green and Digital Transition in Manufacturing Global Value Chains in Latecomer Countries
This paper is based on a review of the literature that brings together GVCs, green and digital transformations. Or to be more precise, the analysis is based on three main components: (a) the greening of GVCs and environmental upgrading; (b) the digital transformation of manufacturing GVCs and (c) an...
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2023
Christopher Ksoll, Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria
Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya’s Floriculture Industry
Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 postelection violence as an example. The violence induced a large...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Bublu Thakur‑Weigold and Sébastien Miroudot
Supply chain myths in the resilience and deglobalization narrative: consequences for policy
The economic disruptions experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have generated a narrative of resilience and deglobalization that brings the old world order into question. Heightened public attention on perceived supply chain failures has exerted pressure on gove...
Trade and FDI
Services
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2023
Sasidaran Gopalan, Sébastien Miroudot, Ketan Reddy
Global value chains and firm survivability during the COVID-19 pandemic: digitalization as the moderator?
Firms participating in global value chains (GVCs) were not only exposed to significant shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic but also turned out to be more resilient. Leveraging a large cross-country firm-level dataset from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and COVID-19 Follow-Up Enterprise Sur...
Trade and FDI
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2023
Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu
Global Value Chains, Job Creation, and Job Destruction among Firms in South Africa
Extant studies suggest that firms’ engagement in global value chain (GVC) trade is associated with productivity gains that result from the continual reallocation of resources to their most productive use. This reallocation generates benefits for transitioning workers but also incurs costs for work...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
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2023
Stefano Ponte, Jennifer Blair, Mark Dallas
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda
Power is a central, but largely undertheorized, concept for scholars of global value chains (GVCs). In this introduction to a special issue on power and inequality in GVCs, the authors summarize the key insights from the articles gathered here and explain how the collection advances our understandin...
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
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2023
Christoph Kubitza, Vijesh V. Krishna, Stephan Klasen, Thomas Kopp, Nunung Nuryartono, Matin Qaim
Labor Displacement in Agriculture: Evidence from Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia
We analyze the labor market effects of oil palm cultivation among smallholder farmers in Indonesia. Oil palm requires less labor per unit of land than alternative crops, especially less female labor. Micro-level data and nationally-representative regency-level data show that oil palm adoption, on av...
Agriculture and food
East Asia and Pacific
Social and working conditions
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2023
Felipe Alexandre De Lima, Stefan Seuring
A Delphi study examining risk and uncertainty management in circular supply chains
Circular supply chains (CSCs) have attracted increasing attention in the supply chain management literature due to their role in increasing the circularity of materials, components, and products. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to risk and uncertainty management in CSCs, with th...
Uncategorized
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2023
Michele Mancini, Aaditya Mattoo, Daria Taglioni, Debora Winkler
Sub‐Saharan Africa’s participation in global value chains: 1995–2021
This paper examines Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) role in global value chains (GVCs) through a new comprehensive country-sector level database. It reaffirms known aspects: SSA's involvement in GVCs has grown but still trails other regions, especially in manufacturing. Typically, SSA is involved in upst...
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Emmanuel B. Mensah, Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Intergration of African countries in regional and global value chains: Static and dynamic patterns
We study the geographic concentration of trade flows of African countries using information on the global input–output structure of trade from the Eora database. Most countries show a similar concentration between close-by versus long-distance trade in their foreign input sourcing as in their expo...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Bo Meng, Yu Liu, Yuning Gao, Meng Li, Zhi Wang, Jinjun Xue, Robbie Andrew, Kuishuang Feng, Ye Qi, Yongping Sun, Huaping Sun, Keying Wang
Developing countries’ responsibilities for CO2 emissions in value chains are larger and growing faster than those of developed countries
Carbon emissions associated with international trade are significant. The emergence of complex global value chains (GVCs) in recent decades, in which a country can operate as both a consumer and producer simultaneously, has led to a further rise in emissions. The complexity of these GVCs makes it in...
Environment and climate change
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2023
Guangzheng Jing, Shanshan Meng, Miaojie Yu
Digital economy and the domestic supply chain network
Accelerating the development of the digital economy and building digital industrial clusters with international competitiveness has become an important connotation of China’s high-quality economic development. From the perspective of the digital economy, this paper makes an in-depth study of the i...
East Asia and Pacific
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2023
Angela Heucher, Amélie Gräfin zu Eulenburg, Judith Ihl, Michèle Kiefer
Global supply chains - especially in the textile sector - face many social and environmental challenges to sustainability. The public has become increasingly aware o f these challenges in the wake of disasters such as the fire in the Ali Enterprises textile factory in Pakistan in 2012 and the co...
Manufacturing
Social and working conditions
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2023
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Maurício Santoro & Maiara Folly
Chinese Railway Investments in Brazil: Socio-Environmental Implications for the Amazon and Cerrado
As China’s interests and presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) expand, Chinese firms have been changing their strategy in Brazil. More specifically, they have been diversifying away from buying financial assets toward more greenfield investments, through which China-headquartered compa...
Trade and FDI
Latin America
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2023
Matthew Alford & Margareet Visser
Governance and Power across Intersecting Value Chains: The Case of South African Apples
A prevailing focus of global value chain (GVC) analysis has been on the dominance of highly consolidated Northern retailers over suppliers in the global South. The rise of regional and domestic value chains (RVCs/DVCs) within the Global South which intersect with GVCs, has been found to involve priv...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
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2023
Elizabeth Yi Wang, Nigel Driffield, Jeremy Clegg, Lilian Miles, Matthew Alford & Jae Kim
What does it take to build an inclusive governance of global value chains? A framework for intervention
As important actors in global value chains (GVCs), multinational enterprises exercise coordination and control over worldwide commodity, production, service, workforce and knowledge mobility. A level playing field for all GVC stakeholders remains absent. We argue for empowering subordinated stakehol...
Uncategorized
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2023
Julian Boys, Antonio Andreoni
Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles & apparel sector
This paper introduces the concept of value chain directionality to investigate how orientation to different value chains has implications for productive learning and industrial outcomes. We develop and test this concept building on a purposefully designed firm-level survey focused on the textile a...
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Anirudh Shingal, Prachi Agarwal
How did GVC-trade respond to previous healthshocks? Evidence from SARS and MERS
A health crisis can impact GVCs adversely by raising bilateral trade costs and via supply- and demand-sideshocks in the exporting and importing countries.Focusing on trade in select GVC-intensive sectors, we disentangle the effects of these different channels in the context of SARS and MERS in a str...
Trade and FDI
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2023
Prachi Agarwal, Linda Calabrese, Derrick Abudu, Ogoegbunam Chukwurah
The automotive sector in Nigeria: Opportunities under the AfCFTA
The automotive industry in Nigeria is one of the country's most promising sectors due to its growing domestic market size. The large continental market offered by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is likely to present an opportunity for the industry....
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Prachi Agarwal, Faizel Ismail, and Vuyiswa Mkhabela
AfCFTA and rules of origin for the textile and apparel industry in Africa
This paper is intended to stimulate a balanced debate on the appropriate rules of origin for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the textile and apparel sector. It argues for a ‘developmental regionalism’ approach to the AfCFTA rules of origin that supports a Made in Africa appro...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Edited by Pol Antràs and David Zilberman
Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains
An essential guide to the role of microeconomic incentives, macro policies, and technological change in enhancing agriculture resilience. Climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the vulnerability of global agricultural supply and value chains. There is a growing awareness of ...
Agriculture and food
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2023
Julia Cajal-Grossi, Davide Del Prete, and Rocco Macchiavello
Supply chain disruptions and sourcing strategies
Supply chain disruptions have recently been at the center of both academic and policy debates. After reviewing some of the emerging literature on supply chain disruptions, we discuss the role of buyers' sourcing strategies in mediating responses to such shocks. We focus on two dimensions of a buyer'...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Inga Carry, Melanie Müller
Addressing Environmental Injustices in South African Artisanal Gold Mining
Around 30,000 artisanal miners (Zama Zamas) work in and around active and abandoned mines in South Africa. However, weak governance and oversight of illegal mining have resulted in lawlessness, insecurity, and hundreds of deaths over the years. These mining sites have become some of the most violent...
Mining
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
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2023
Elvis K. Avenyo and Antonio Andreoni
Critical Minerals and Routes to Diversification in Africa: Opportunities for Diversification into Renewable Energy Technologies – The Case of Morocco
This paper maps the emerging opportunities and challenges for diversification into renewable energy technology value chains and develops a framework that analyses how Morocco can potentially localise and capture value within these supply networks, including leading the building and development of re...
Manufacturing
Mining
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Reena Das Nair and Shingie Chisoro
Participation of SMEs and women-owned businesses in the South African wine value chain
Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs (SMEs) and women-owned businesses are recognised as important contributors to South Africa’s economic growth, employment, and structural transformation objectives. In South Africa, SMEs are estimated to account for around 98.5% of all businesses (in number term...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Reena Das Nair and Nwabisa Nontenja
Digital Technology Adoption in Agro-processing Value Chains
The adoption and use of digital technologies in the supply chains of large and lead firms has the potential to increase the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) along food value chains in various ways. At the primary level of food value chains, better traceability through digit...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Amirah El-Haddad and Chahir Zaki
Vulnerability and resilience: crisis transmission channels for GVCs in COVID times
Firms that are part of GVCs are better protected from the transmission channels for the negative effects of COVID-19. They also show greater resilience and so better performance. There are nuances in the results depending on whether GVC affiliation is defined in a moderately lax or strict way. The r...
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Amirah El-Haddad
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing
Utilizing an original data set, this paper demonstrates how protectionist industrial policy during the period of hybrid liberalization has shaped the organizational structure of clothing firms in Egypt. It investigates determinants of vertical integration of clothing firms into fabric production. Hi...
Manufacturing
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Amirah El-Haddad and Chahir Zakib
Storm survivors: Evidence from firms in times of pandemic
The COVID-19 outbreak has had severe economic consequences across the globe. The crisis emanating from the pandemic has caused demand and supply side shocks, more far reaching than any crisis in living memory. We use a new data set from the 2020/21 Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey to examine...
The Middle East and North Africa
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2023
Hannes Grohs, Jan Grumiller, and Andreas Peham
Potentials for Improving the Socioeconomic Situation of Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers: The Role of Sustainability Initiatives
Based on an overview of both the global cocoa-chocolate value chain and the specifics of the cocoa industry in Ghana as well as the associated sustainability issues, this report provides a comprehensive review of sustainability initiatives in the cocoa-chocolate GVC initiated during the last 20 year...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Sustainability standards
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2023
Tevin Tafese, Jann Lay, and Van Tran
From Fields to Factories: Special Economic Zones, Foreign Direct Investment, and Labour Markets in Vietnam
Vietnam has integrated into global value chains through the establishment of special economic zones (SEZs). This paper examines the local labour-market impacts of this programme, building on a unique dataset of SEZs in combination with labour force survey (LFS) data. Using historical satellite image...
Agriculture and food
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
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2023
Günther Maihold
Shadow supply chains and criminal networks
The second chapter by Günther Maihold investigates the connection between shadow supply chains and criminal markets. He challenges the assumption of a “geographical convergence of illicit flows and criminal networks” in which transnational networks of organised crime “have cast a net of conta...
2023
Markus Krajewski
Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: Blurring the Lines between State Duty to Protect and Corporate Responsibility to Respect?
This paper assesses mandatory human rights laws for companies in light of the public–private divide in international human rights law. It asks whether and to what extent these laws contribute to the blurring of the private–public divide by reducing or even eliminating the boundaries between the ...
Sustainability standards
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2023
Rainer Thiele, Aoife Hanley, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich
The cumulative effect of due diligence EU legislation on SMEs
This study addresses the expected impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It takes the German supply chain act (Lieferkettengesetz) as an example that may hold lessons for EU due diligence legislation. Against the backgr...
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
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2023
Yasmine Eissa, Chahir Zaki
On GVC and innovation: the moderating role of policy
This paper empirically investigates the association between global value chains (GVC) participation and countries’ innovation performance. Highlighting the learning effect of foreign knowledge embedded in imported intermediate goods counters the argument that GVC participation is biased towards de...
Trade and FDI
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2023
Gideon Tups, Peter Dannenberg
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain
Global suppliers of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and agrochemicals exert increasing degrees of power in global value chains (GVCs). Although the GVC literature has explained how global buyers govern GVCs from the buying-end, the question of how global suppliers achieve governance f...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2023
Johanna Coenen, Gabi Sonderegger, Jens Newig, Patrick Meyfroidt, Edward Challies, Simon L. Bager, Louise M. Busck-Lumholt, Esteve Corbera, Cecilie Friis, Anna Frohn Pedersen, Perrine C.S.J. Laroche, Claudia Parra Paitan, Siyu Qin, Nicolas Roux, Julie G Zaehringer
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due to difficulties in designing and implementing governance institutions that fit or match the scale of the environmental and social proble...
Agriculture and food
Sustainability standards
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2023
Jan Hurt, Katharina Ledebur, Birgit Meyer, Klaus Friesenbichler, Markus Gerschberger, Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek
Supply Chain Due Diligence Risk Assessment for the EU: A Network Approach to estimate expected effectiveness of the planned EU directive
Globalization has had undesirable effects on the labor standards embedded in the products we consume. This paper proposes an ex-ante evaluation of supply chain due diligence regulations, such as the EU Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). We construct a full-scale network model der...
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2023
Birgit Meyer, Isabel Pham
Human Rights in Supply Chains – An Overview of Due Diligence Obligations for Austrian Firms
Based on the United Nations General Assembly's Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948, human rights have become an integral part of the behaviour of states and companies. This study provides an overview of the development of the legal framework for the observance of human rights along suppl...
EU / Western Europe
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2022
Günther Maihold
Die neue Geopolitik der Lieferketten – “Friend-shoring” als Zielvorgabe für den Umbau von Lieferketten
Eine lange Reihe von Störungen des Welthandels in den letzten Jahren hat eine Reorganisation der internationalen Lieferketten auf die politische Tagesordnung gebracht. Die Unregelmäßigkeiten begannen mit dem Handelskrieg zwischen den USA und China, setzten sich fort mit der Covid-19-Pandemie und ...
Environment and climate change
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2022
Melanie Müller, Christina Saulich, Meike Schulze
Public-Private Alliances for Sustainable Commodity Supply Chains
The promotion of public-private cooperation in resource-rich countries of the Global South can serve as a flanking measure that strengthens the impact of supply chain laws. The case of the South African mining sector in its struggle against Covid-19 shows that close cooperation between companies, th...
Sub-saharan Africa
Mining
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2022
Hannes Grohs, Jan Grumiller, Werner Raza
Resilience in Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Evidence and Policy Recommendations
The COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns and export restrictions highlighted the vulnerability of global trade and global value chains (GVCs). What is more, many commentators argue that the likelihood of exogenous shocks that threaten international trade and GVCs, such as natural disasters, pandemics...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2022
GALE RAJ-REICHERT, CORNELIA STARITZ and LEONHARD PLANK
Conceptualizing the Regulator-Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks
Labour rights violations and poor working conditions are rife in global production networks (GPNs). Until now research on labour governance in GPNs has been dominated by private measures. We ignite discussions on the role of the state in governing labour conditions in GPNs by focusing on a less well...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2022
Kristoffer Marslev,Cornelia Staritz,and Gale Raj-Reichert
Rethinking Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State‒Labour Relations and Intersectionality
This article builds on critiques of the concept of social upgrading in global value chain (GVC) research, which problematize its coupling to lead firm strategies and economic upgrading by supplier firms, by reconceptualizing social upgrading through the lens of worker power. It argues that a better ...
Trade and FDI
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2022
Federico Cammelli, Samuel A. Levy, Janina Grabs, Judson Ferreira Valentim, Rachael D. Garrett
Effectiveness-equity tradeoffs in enforcing exclusionary supply chain policies: Lessons from the Amazonian cattle sector
To address ongoing deforestation for global food commodities production, companies and governments have adopted a range of forest-focused supply chain policies. In the Brazilian Amazon, these policies take the form of market exclusion mechanisms, i.e., immediately dropping suppliers who have cleared...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2022
Rachael D. Garrett, Janina Grabs, Federico Cammelli, Florian Gollnow, and Samuel A. Levy
Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado
Over the past decade public and private actors have been developing a variety of new policy approaches for addressing agriculturally-driven deforestation linked to international supply chains. While payments for environmental services (PES) have been advocated in many contexts as an efficient and pr...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2022
Jörg Hofstetter, Anita McGahan, Brian Silverman, Baniyelme Zoogah
A Unique Diversity: Understanding the sustainability and global integration of African businesses
Diamond rings, chocolate delights, coffee, cars and portable electronics are all integrally grounded in the African continent, however Africa’s vital contributions have not been fully integrated into scholarly understanding of supply or value chains....
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2022
Joerg S. Hofstetter, Anita M. McGahan, Brian S. Silverman, Baniyelme D. Zoogah
Sustainability and global value chains in Africa: Introduction to the Special Issue
The challenges and opportunities facing African organizations reflect a long history of tensions, tragedies, triumphs, and accomplishments in relationships across continental boundaries. For example, Africa has long been a source of critical minerals and other raw materials that are integral to a wi...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2022
Bettina Rudloff
Sustainable international value chains: The EU’s new due diligence approach as part of a policy mix
A new family of regulatory approaches affecting international value chains has been initiated recently, mainly by developed countries, the Due Diligence Laws (DDLs). These new approaches are an addition to already existing (and partially) older trade measures that have already been adapted in the pa...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2022
Philip Schleifer, Clara Brandi, Rupal Verma, Katharina Bissinger, Matteo Fiorini
Voluntary standards and the SDGs: Mapping public-private complementarities for sustainable development
To strengthen global sustainability governance, academics and policymakers have called for a better integration of private governance with public policy instruments. Surprisingly, however, systematic research on the state of such public-private complementarities in the field of sustainable developme...
Sustainability standards
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2022
Philip Schleifer and Luc Fransen
Towards a Smart Mix 2.0 – Harnessing Regulatory Heterogeneity for Sustainable Global Supply Chains
Over the past three decades, efforts to address human rights and environmental risks in global supply chains have spurred a plethora of industry self-regulation, third-party certification schemes, voluntary due diligence guidelines, and mandatory supply chain regulations. The resulting heterogeneity...
Sustainability standards
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2022
Antonio Andreoni and Simon Roberts
Geopolitics Of Critical Minerals In Renewable Energy Supply Chains
Addressing the climate change crisis calls for an accelerated deployment of renewableenergy technologies – solar panels and wind turbines – as well as a shift towards electric vehicles (EV) (Bainton et al., 2021). The manufacturing of these technologies, however, relies on the availability and s...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Mining
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2022
Inga Carry, Günther Maihold
Illegal logging, timber laundering and the global illegal timber trade
Deforestation claims an estimated 10 million hectares each year (FAO 2020). Today’s global demand for timber products1 simply cannot be met by legal, sustainable forestry anymore. The competition for cheap wood products on the global timber market has become a major driver of i...
Agriculture and food
East Asia and Pacific
Environment and climate change
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
Latin America
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2022
Mehmet Sait Akman, Fabrizio Botti, Clara Brandi, Michael Brüntrup, Markus Dietrich, Ilaria Espa, Andreas Freytag, Robert Koopman, Stormy-Annika Mildner, Bettina Rudloff
Sustainable and resilient agricultural value chains: Addressing multiple vulnerabilities with a new partnership approach
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine meet longer-term impacts of climate change and no-less pressing challenges of social and environmental sustainability in and around agriculture, food and nutrition security. Many international mechanisms are already in place for agriculture and f...
Agriculture and food
Eastern/Non-EU Europe and Central Asia
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2022
Christoph Scherrer
Embeddedness of Power Relations in Global Value Chains
This chapter provides an overview of the literature on power relations in global sourcing which goes beyond the prevalent focus on the dyadic business-to-business relation. The move through the various theories of power leads to my major claim which is that power dynamics in GVCs must be understood ...
Sustainability standards
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2022
Maria C. Lo Bue, Tu Thi Ngoc Le, Manuel Santos Silva, Kunal Sen
Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys from developing countries, we measure long-term trends...
Social and working conditions
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2022
Ben Shepherd
Modelling global value chains: From trade costs to policy impacts
I use an approach from the family of ‘new quantitative trade models’ to explore the links between trade costs and integration in Global Value Chains (GVCs). The model conceptualises GVC trade through a multi-country, multi-sector Ricardian model that nests the standard structural gravity model. ...
Trade and FDI
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2022
Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Jorge E. Rodriguez-Morales, Lisa M. Dellmuth
Private adaptation to climate risks: Evidence from the world’s largest mining companies
Private companies have in recent years started to disclose information about their exposure and responses to climate risks. However, we still know little about how and why private actors engage in climate change adaptation, and to what extent they do so in ways that improve societal resilience. This...
Mining
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2022
Raphael Kaplinsky and Erika Kraemer-Mbula
Innovation and uneven development: The challenge for low- and middle-income economies
This essay begins with a recounting of the rise of the Mass Production techno-economic paradigm and the emergence of the systemic economic crisis in the early 1970s. It then explains how this crisis was stemmed by the deepening of globalisation, which accelerated during the 1980s. However, shortly b...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
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2022
Pamina Koenig and Sandra Poncet
The effects of the Rana Plaza collapse on the sourcing choices of French importers
This paper analyzes the effects of a major reputational shock affecting textile importers from Bangladesh. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in April 2013 generated a surge of activism and media coverage specifically targeting the firms that sourced from the factories affected by the disaster....
Trade and FDI
South Asia
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
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2022
Yuwan Duan, Erik Dietzenbacher, Bart Los, Ruochen Dai
Regional Inequality in China During its Rise as a Giant Exporter: A Value Chain Analysis
China's exports success has implications for regional income inequality, because most of its export products are manufactured in the coastal zone. We propose a value chain–based accounting framework to quantify the contributions of exports to regional income inequality. We employ newly developed i...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
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2022
Rachael Diprose, Nanang Kurniawan, Kate Macdonald, Poppy Winanti
Regulating sustainable minerals in electronics supply chains: local power struggles and the ‘hidden costs’ of global tin supply chain governance
Voluntary supply chain regulation has proliferated in recent decades in response to concerns about the social and environmental impacts of global production and trade. Yet the capacity of supply chain regulation to influence production practices on the ground has been persistently questioned. Throug...
Mining
East Asia and Pacific
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2022
Stefan Pahl, Marcel P. Timmer, Reitze Gouma, Pieter J. Woltjer
Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Using newly developed data, the evolution of job and productivity growth in global value chains (GVCs) is analyzed for 25 low- and middle-income countries. GVC jobs are found to be more productive than non-GVC jobs. Their share in the total labor force is small, in particular for low-income countrie...
Manufacturing
Services
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2022
Juliane Lang, Stefano Ponte, Thando Vilakazi
Linking power and inequality in global value chains
There is increasing interest in the study of globalization on whether the emergence and consolidation of global value chains (GVCs) have exacerbated inequalities within and across nations and/or how GVCs may be leveraged to mitigate them. Although power asymmetries have been identified as a central ...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
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2022
Jan Grumiller, Hannes Grohs, Werner Raza
Reconciling Efficiency, Resilience and Sustainability: Global Value Chains in a Post-Covid-19 World
In this article, we aim at making both a conceptual as well as a policy contribution to this debate. In sections 2 and 3, the interlinkages and trade-offs between GVC effi- ciency, resilience and sustainability will be explored and a conceptual framework be introduced that provides a sys- temic way ...
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2022
Cornelia Staritz, Bernhard Tröster, Jan Grumiller, Felix Maile
Price‑Setting Power in Global Value Chains: The Cases of Price Stabilisation in the Cocoa Sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
This paper calls for integrating price-setting power and related uneven exposure to price risks into the analysis of governance in global value chains (GVCs) as it adds to other power dimensions in producing unequal distributional outcomes. This is shown for the cocoa GVC, in which—unlike in today...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2022
Peter J. Buckley, Roger Strange, Marcel P. Timmer, Gaaitzen J. de Vries
Rent appropriation in global value chains: The past, present, and future of intangible assets
The argument of this article is that global strategy research should devote greater attention to rent appropriation in global value chains (GVCs). We discuss the concept of intangible assets, emphasize their scalability at low marginal cost and highlight strategies for the appropriation of rents fro...
Uncategorized
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2022
Ari Van Assche, Rajneesh Narula
Internalization strikes back? Global value chains, and the rising costs of efective cascading compliance
Strategies that make quasi-internalization feasible such as cascading compliance provide a means for lead firms to control the social and environmental conditions among their suppliers and sub-suppliers in ways other than through equity ownership. We take an internalization theory lens to reflect on...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2022
Laura M.G. Hidalgo, Rosane N. de Faria, Roberta Souza Piao, Christine Wieck
Multiplicity of sustainability standards and potential trade costs in the palm oil industry
The growing impact of the global production of agricultural commodities has created new regulations that aim at a more sustainable trade. Sustainability standards (SS) are essential tools for transnational trade governance because they increase the possibility of recognizing products from sustainabl...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
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2022
Burcu Gözet, Henning Wilts
The circular economy as a new narrative for the textile industry: an analysis of the textile value chain with a focus on Germany’s transformation to a circular economy
At the end of March 2022, the European Commission published its new EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. Its ambitious vision is to reduce textile waste, promote circular measures and minimise the negative environmental impacts of the textile industry. But what would a textile industry...
Environment and climate change
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
⌵
2022
Kailan Tian, Yu Zhang, Yuze Li, Xi Ming, Shangrong Jiang, Hongbo Duan, Cuihong Yang, Shouyang Wang
Regional trade agreement burdens global carbon emissions mitigation
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have been widely adopted to facilitate international trade and cross-border investment and promote economic development. However, ex ante measurements of the environmental effects of RTAs to date have not been well conducted. Here, we estimate the CO2 emissions burde...
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
⌵
2022
Sherwat Ibrahim, Chunguang Bai, Joseph Sarkis
An Analytical Method for Investigating Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chains: Simplifying the Complex
The multi-tier sustainable supply chain relationship (MSSCR) is a socially important topic receiving greater attention in the supply chain research community. MSSCR research investigation is difficult. There is greater complexity associated with broader sets of organizations, practices, objectives, ...
Uncategorized
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2022
Elvis K. Avenyo and Sumayya Goga
Industrial policy, the manufacturing sector and black empowerment in South Africa
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) in South Africa has undoubtedly been ambitious in seeking to transform ownership, control, and management of the economy's productive assets and resources. While BEE policy has been applied as the African National Congress government's primary strategy for bringing a...
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2022
Luc Fransen and Natalie J. Langford
Building legitimacy in an era of polycentric trade: the case of transnational sustainability governance
Increasing multi‐polarity within global politics is understood to be a key contributor to the current legitimacy crisis facing global governance organisations. International relations scholars studying this crisis recognise that a prominent strategy to confront “Northern” dominance within this...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
⌵
2022
Gary Gereffi, Penny Bamber, and Karina Fernandez-Stark
China’s New Development Strategies Upgrading from Above and from Below in Global Value Chains China’s Evolving Role in Global Value Chains: Upgrading Strategies in an Era of Disruptions and Resilience
China’s role in global value chains (GVCs) has changed fundamentally in recent decades. The country has moved from being the world factory for a diverse range of low-tech, mid-tech, and high-tech consumer goods to the goal of becoming a technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufactur...
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
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2022
Johannes Jäger
International Political Economy and Sustainable Finance: Assessing the EU’s Green Deal and UNCTAD’s Green New Deal
Sustainable green finance is often promoted as an innovative tool to deal with environmental problems. This paper assesses policy proposals at the level of the EU and UNCTAD’s Green New Deal, specifically regarding its suggestions in the field of sustainable finance. It provides a theoretical fram...
Trade and FDI
EU / Western Europe
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2022
Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Mark Gibney, Wouter Vandenhole and Markus Krajewski
The future of extraterritorial human rights obligations
As this is being written, the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, and some important extraterritorial lessons – some good and some bad – have emerged from this pandemic. The first and perhaps most obvious is that communicable diseases do not respect national borders. What began in W...
Sustainability standards
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2022
Tilman Altenburg, Nicoletta Corrocher, and Franco Malerba
China’s leapfrogging in electromobility. A story of green transformation driving catch-up and competitive advantage
For several decades, China tried to catch up in the automotive industry, yet until recently with little success. Now, the paradigm shift from internal combustion to electric driving has opened a window of opportunity to catch up with global competitors. The Chinese government provided a strong polic...
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
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2022
Mengyi Zhang, Peter Dannenberg
Opportunities and Challenges of Indigenous Food Plant Farmers in Integrating into Agri-Food Value Chains in Cape Town
In many regions of the Global South, introduced crops have led to a loss of biodiversity and left the food system vulnerable to climate change. As a result, the (re-)introduction of indigenous food plants (IFPs) into agriculture is discussed as a way to a more sustainable and resilient food producti...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2022
Benedetta Cotta, Johanna Coenen, Edward Challies , Jens Newig, Andrea Lenschow, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research on this topic has been dispersed across multiple fields and diverse theoretical perspectives. We present the results of a systematic l...
Sustainability standards
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2021
Gideon Ndubuisi, Solomon Owusu
How important is GVC Participation to Export Upgrading
Abstract Exporting higher‐quality and complex products are deemed pathways to economic growth and development. However, producing such products are knowledge‐intensive and require quality intermediate inputs and advanced technologies. Integration into global trade networks is increasingly argue...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Stefan Pahl, Clara Brandi, Jakob Schwab, Frederik Stender
Cling together, swing together: the contagious effects of COVID‐19 on developing countries through global value chains
This paper aims at estimating the economic vulnerability of developing countries to disruptions in global value chains (GVCs) due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. It uses trade in value added data for a sample of 12 developing countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America to assess their depe...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
South Asia
Latin America
⌵
2021
Eddy Bekkers, Robert B. Koopman, Carolina Lemos Rêgo
Structural change in the Chinese economy and changing trade relations with the world
This paper examines the impact of structural change in China, in particular a reduction in the savings rate, an increase in the share of skilled workers, and an increase in productivity in technologically advanced manufacturing sectors targeted by Made in China 2025. Baseline projections until 2040 ...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
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2021
Günther Maihold and Viktoria Reisch
Environmental Rights and Conflicts over Raw Materials in Latin America. The Escazú Agreement Is Ready to Come into Force in 2021
On 5 November 2020 Mexico ratified the so-called Escazú Agreement, a treaty between Latin American and Caribbean states on establishing regional transparency and environment standards, as the eleventh country to do so. The prescribed quorum of ratifications has thus been attained, and the agr...
Environment and climate change
Latin America
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2021
Laurie S.M. Reijnders, Marcel P.Timmer, Xianjia Ye
Labour demand in global value chains: Is there a bias against unskilled work?
Rodrik (2018) hypothesizes that technology used in global value chains (GVCs) is biased against the use of unskilled workers. To test this hypothesis, we introduce a GVC production function in which final output is produced by means of factor inputs from all countries that participate in the GVC. In...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2021
Wen Chen, Bart Los, Marcel Timmer
Factor incomes in global value chains: The role of intangibles.
Recent studies document a decline in the share of labour and a simultaneous increase in the share of residual (‘factorless’) income in national GDP. We argue the need for study of factor incomes in cross-border production to complement country studies. We define a GVC production function that tr...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2021
Chuan Liao, Kerstin Nolte, Jonathan A. Sullivan, Daniel G. Brown, Jann Lay, Christof Althoff, and Arun Agrawal
Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation
Global drivers and carbon emissions associated with large-scale land transactions have been poorly investigated. Here we examine major factors behind such transactions (income, agricultural productivity, availability of arable land and water scarcity) and estimate potential carbon emissions under di...
Environment and climate change
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2021
Karishma Banga
Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms
This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of digitalisation on product upgrading in Global Value Chains (GVCs). Analysis is done for a sample of Indian manufacturing GVC firms in the period 2001–2015 from the firm-level database Prowess, using the methodology of System Generalised Metho...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
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2021
Karishma Banga, Mohamed Gharib, Maximiliano Mendez-Parra, Jamie Macleod
E-commerce in preferential trade agreements: implications for African firms and the AfCFTA
At continent level, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations are scheduled to include a protocol on e-commerce under Phase III, presenting a unique opportunity for African countries to collectively establish common positions on e-commerce, harmonise digital economy regulations a...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Jennifer Bair, Mathew Mahutga, Marion Werner, and Liam Campling
Capitalist crisis in the “age of global value chains”
In this article, we analyze the strategies, surprises, and sidesteps in the World Bank’s 2020 World Development Report, Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains. Strategically, the Report promotes an expansion of neoliberal globalization couched in the language of global value cha...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Anne Mette Kjær, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur, and Michael Wendelboe Hansen
When ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ matter politically: Extractive industry regulation and taxation in Uganda and Tanzania
It is a common view that states in the developing world with substantial extractive natural resource discoveries may not have the capacity to tax and regulate multinational companies in the sector. In this article, we show that ruling elites in recently resource-rich Tanzania, and in Uganda – expe...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Mining
⌵
2021
Günther Maihold, Melanie Müller, Christina Saulich, and Svenja Schöneich
Responsibility in Supply Chains – Germany’s Due Diligence Act Is a Good Start
On 3 March, the Federal Cabinet adopted an act on corporate due diligence in supply chains. This represents an important step towards German businesses assuming full and proper responsibility for the supply chains associated with their goods and services. The move puts Germany in a group of European...
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2021
Larissa Rodrigues, Felipe Bastos, Radolfo Finatti, Marta Salomon
What is the real socioeconomic impact of gold and diamond exploration in the Amazon?
Gold and diamond mining in the Amazon has become a major debate topic in recent years, and has intensified during the term of the current federal administration, alongside the issues of increased deforestation and armed conflict over land use. The question remains: does mineral exploration actually ...
Mining
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Latin America
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2021
Björn Ambos, Kristin Brandl, Alessandra Perri, Vittoria G. Scalera, Ari Van Assche
The nature of innovation in global value chains
Global value chains (GVCs) have revolutionized production processes and many companies no longer produce goods and services entirely in one single country or within their own organizational boundaries. Through offshoring and outsourcing, value chains are sliced up and activities are dispersed to loc...
Trade and FDI
Services
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2021
Larissa Rodrigues, Felipe Bastos, Radolfo Finatti, Marta Salomon
Protected areas or threatened areas? The endless gold rush in the Indigenous Lands and Conservation Units of the Amazon
This study features updated data until 2020 on the size of the threat that gold poses to protected areas in the Legal Amazon. To accomplish this, the study analyzed all gold prospecting requests (prospecting applications and permits) registered with the National Mining Agency (Agência Nacional de M...
Mining
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Latin America
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2021
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow, Edward Challies, Benedetta Cotta, Jens Newig
Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil
The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are suppose...
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Latin America
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2021
Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest-risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy-making processes at ...
Services
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2021
Carolin Brix‐Asala, Stefan Seuring, Philipp C. Sauer, Axel Zehendner, Lara Schilling
Resolving the base of the pyramid inclusion paradox through supplier development
Resulting from divergent business environments between actors, the integration of the base of the pyramid (BoP) into formal supply chain (SC) structures is often ham- pered by institutional voids, which can result in the emergence of paradoxical situa- tions. This paper analyzes the potential of sup...
Trade and FDI
Services
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2021
Davin Chor, Kalina Manova, Zhihong Yu
Growing like China: Firm performance and global production line position
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and how ...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
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2021
Alvaro Espitia, Aaditya Mattoo, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Deborah Winkler
Pandemic trade: COVID‐19, remote work and global value chains
This paper studies the trade effects of COVID-19 using monthly disaggregated trade data for 28 countries and multiple trading partners from the beginning of the pandemic to June 2020. Regression results based on a sector-level gravity model show that the negative trade effects induced by COVID-19 sh...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
EU / Western Europe
Social and working conditions
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2021
Marcel P. Timmer, Stefan Pahl
Structural Change in Exports: from product to functional specialization
Trade analysis on the basis of countries’ export baskets can be misleading when production is globally fragmented. The chapter argues for a switch to analysis of the type of activities that are embodied in exports. The chapter discusses two steps towards this goal. It first discusses the transit...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2021
Sanchita Banerjee Saxena, Nancy Reyes Mullins, and Salil Tripathi
The Weakest Link in the Global Supply Chain – How the Pandemic is Affecting Bangladesh’s Garment Workers
The readymade garment industry employs millions of workers in Bangladesh and has contributed to the nation's development. The COVID19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the sector as malls and factories had to close and workers faced uncertain futures. This report evaluates global retailers...
South Asia
Social and working conditions
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2021
Christine Wieck and Jason H. Grant
Codex in Motion: Food Safety Standard Setting and Impacts on Developing Countries.
The Codex Alimentarius, or ‘food code’, was established to set international standards to ensure the safety and quality of food and agricultural products while at the same time creating a level playing field for international trade. However, less is known about the duration of the standards sett...
Agriculture and food
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2021
Wieck, C., Dries, L., Martinez-Gomez, V., Idowu Kareem, O., Rudloff, B., Gaetano Santeramo, F., Sliwinska, M., and Sliwinska, R.
European and member states policy responses and economic impacts on agri-food markets due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Agriculture and food
EU / Western Europe
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2021
Emily J. Blanchard, Chad P. Bown, and Robert C. Johnson
Global Value Chains and Trade Policy
How do global value chain (GVC) linkages modify countries’ incentives to imposeimport protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of tradepolicy in practice? To address these questions, we develop a new approach to mod-eling tariff setting with GVCs, in which opti...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Julia Schwarzkopf, Klaus Fischer, Martin Müller
Success factors of voluntary sustainable supply chain management sector initiatives
Sustainability can create greater efficiency and cost savings in the supply chain. Supply chains, which are more complex and global than ever before, are full of both risks and opportunities. The risks range from inconsistent or poor quality to supply disruptions to health and safety concerns to cor...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2021
Sanchita Banerjee Saxena, Harpreet Kaur, and Salil Tripathi
How the Pandemic has Impacted the Various Layers of the Global Garment Supply Chain
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world’s economy and supply chains worldwide, and the global garment industry is certainly no exception. During the time of a global crisis such as the pandemic, these already difficult conditions have been made even more precarious for the millions who depend o...
Social and working conditions
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2021
Holger Görg, Jann Lay, Stefan Pahl, Adnan Seric, Frauke Steglich, and Liubov Yaroshenko
Multilateral coordination and exchange for sustainable global value chains
While participation in global value chains (GVCs) is widely associated with benefits for countries’ development and growth, its environmental and social costs become increasingly evident. Representing core buyer and supplier countries in GVCs, the G20 is particularly suited to tackle this global c...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
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2021
Julian Donaubauer, Peter Kannen, Frauke Steglich
Foreign Direct Investment & Petty Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis at the Local Level
Inspired by a recent and ongoing debate about whether foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a blessing for or an impediment to economic, social, and political development in FDI host countries this paper addresses two issues: Does the presence of foreign investors impact the occurrence of petty...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Ana Margarida Fernandes, Hiau Looi Kee, Deborah Winkler
Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Evidence
The past decades have witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of countries’ GVC partic...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Integrating Human Rights and the Environment in Supply Chain Regulations
To address the negative externalities associated with global trade, countries in the Global North have increasingly adopted supply chain regulations. While global supply chains cause or contribute to interconnected environmental and human rights impacts, I show that supply chain regulations often ex...
Environment and climate change
EU / Western Europe
Social and working conditions
Latin America
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2021
Peter Kannen, Finn Ole Semrau, Frauke Steglich
Green gifts from abroad? FDI and firms’ green management
Improvements of firms' environmental performance crucially determine the speed of a country's green economic transformation. In this paper, we investigate whether firms with foreign ownership are more likely to adopt 'green' management practices, which determine the capability to monitor and improve...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Services
Environment and climate change
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2021
Giovanni Pasquali, Aarti Krishnan, Matthew Alford
Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from Kenyan horticulture
An extensive body of research has examined the prospects for suppliers in the global South to upgrade within global value chains (GVCs) controlled by lead firms from, and oriented towards end-markets in, the global North. However, the expansion of South-South trade has altered the geography of GVCs....
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Giovanni Pasquali, Matthew Alford
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather
This article analyses how the private governance of global value chains (GVCs) varies across multiple end-markets. This is explored through a two-stage mixed-methods analysis of Kenya’s participation in leather value chains serving Europe, China, India and the COMESA region. We first draw on trans...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Valentina De Marchi, Matthew Alford
State policies and upgrading in global value chains: A systematic literature review
This paper examines the role of state policymaking in a context of global value chains (GVCs). While the literature acknowledges that states matter in GVCs, there is little understanding of how they matter from a policy perspective. We address this tension between theory and practice by first deline...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Matthew Alford, Margareet Visser, Stephanie Barrientos
Southern actors and the governance of labour standards in global production networks: The case of South African fruit and wine
Recent studies highlight the emergence of standards, including multi-stakeholder initiatives developed and applied within the global South where supplier firms are usually based. This trend has created a complex ethical terrain whereby transnational standards flow through global production networks ...
Trade and FDI
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2021
Philipp Herkenhoff, Sebastian Krautheim, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich
Corporate Social Responsibility along the Global Value Chain
Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with incomplete ...
Trade and FDI
South Asia
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2021
Katharina Löhr, Bujar Aruqaj, Daniel Baumert, Michelle Bonatti, Michael Brüntrup, Christian Bunn, Augusto Castro-Nunez, Giovanna Chavez-Miguel, Martha Lilia Del Rio, Samyra Hachmann, Héctor Camilo Morales Muñoz, Franziska Ollendorf, Tatiana Rodriguez, Bettina Rudloff, Johannes Schorling, Arne Schuffenhauer, Ingrid Schulte, Stefan Sieber, Sophia Tadesse, Christian Ulrichs, Claudia Vogel, and Michael Weinhardt
Social Cohesion as the Missing Link between Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia
Social cohesion plays a key role in processes of peacebuilding and sustainable development. Fostering social cohesion might present a potential to enhance the connection of natural resource management and peacebuilding and better functioning of sustainable land use systems. This contribution explore...
Environment and climate change
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2021
Bettina Rudloff
Supply chain legislation: “The EU’s general principle is to support, not to punish
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2021
Rachael D. Garrett, Samuel A. Levy, Florian Gollnow, Leonie Hodel, and Ximena Rueda
Have food supply chain policies improved forest conservation and rural livelihoods? A systematic review
To address concerns about the negative impacts of food supply chains in forest regions, a growing number of companies have adopted policies to influence their suppliers’ behaviors. With a focus on forest-risk food supply chains, we provide a systematic review of the conservation and livelihood out...
Agriculture and food
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2021
Janina Grabs, Federico Cammelli, Samuel A. Levy, Rachael D. Garrett
Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies
In response to the clearing of tropical forests for agricultural expansion, agri-food companies have adopted promises to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains in the form of ‘zero-deforestation commitments’ (ZDCs). While there is growing evidence about the environmental effectiveness ...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2021
Antonio Andreoni, Pamela Mondliwa, Simon Roberts, and Fiona Tregenna
Structural Transformation in South Africa The Challenges of Inclusive Industrial Development in a Middle-Income Country
Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, Structural Transformation in South Africa offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportuniti...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Luc Fransen, Kendra Dupuy, Marja Hinfelaar, and Sultan Mohammed Zakaria Mazumder
Tempering Transnational Advocacy? The Effect of Repression and Regulatory Restriction on Transnational NGO Collaborations
This paper examines through qualitative study the effect of government regulatory restriction and repression on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaging in transnational advocacy. The focus is on NGO’s advocacy activities, in the realm of human rights, environment, labor and development in p...
Sub-saharan Africa
South Asia
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2021
Justin Barnes, Anthony Black, Chelsea Markowitz, and Lorenza Monaco
Regional integration, regional value chains and the automotive industry in Sub-Saharan Africa
To date, regional automotive value chains have not developed to any significant extent in Africa. Growing demand for vehicles across the continent, closer economic integration and the desire on the part of some larger African countries to establish an automotive industry have improved prospects. But...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Mike Morris, Justin Barnes, David Kaplan
Value chains and Industrial Development in South Africa
This chapter focuses on the dynamics of global value chains (GVC) engagement and industrial development in South Africa through two case studies—the automotive and textiles/apparel sectors. The further industrialization and development of South Africa and of the Southern African region will depend...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Justin Barnes, Anthony Black, Lorenza Monaco
Government Policy in Multinational-Dominated Global Value Chains: Structural Transformation within the South African Automotive Industry
Through a series of government plans, the South African automotive industry has achieved undeniable success, especially in terms of its export orientation. The industry uses efficient technologies and is integrated into global markets. However, major structural weaknesses exist. Export growth has no...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Thomas Reardon, Lenis Saweda O Liverpool-Tasie, Bart Minten
Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several decades in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Their spread has been most rapid in the long transitio...
Agriculture and food
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2021
Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen
The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspective
This article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes. To date, this area has received less analysis, al though it is relevant to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goa...
Uncategorized
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2021
Philipp Harms, Jaewon Jung, Oliver Lorz
Offshoring and sequential productionchains: A general equilibrium analysis
We present a two-region general equilibrium model in which firms exploit international wage differences by offshoring parts of the production process. Firms have to take into account that production steps follow a strict sequence and that transporting intermediate goods across borders is costly. We ...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Mauro Boffa, Marion Jansen, Olga Solleder
Participating to Compete: Do Small Firms in Developing Countries Benefit from Global Value Chains?
Standard trade theory suggests that the profile of exporting firms is characterized by large firms which dominate domestic productivity distribution. Large manufacturing multinationals have increased their productivity by participating, creating and shaping global production networks. In recent d...
Trade and FDI
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2021
Pamina Koenig, Sebastian Krautheim, Claudius Löhnert, Thierry Verdier
Local global watchdogs: Trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
International NGO campaigns criticizing firms for infringements along their internationalized value chains are a salient feature of economic globalization. We argue that understanding the international patterns of NGO campaigns requires accounting for the geography of their targets’ economic activ...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
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2021
Marc Bacchetta, Eddy Bekkers, Roberta Piermartini, Stela Rubinova, Voctor Stolzenburg, Ankai Xu
COVID-19 and global value chains: A discussion of arguments on value chain organization and the role of the WTO
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a discussion among researchers and policy makers about changes to global value chains, both about expected changes and changes that should be promoted by government policies. In this paper we conduct an in-depth analysis of the reasons for ...
Uncategorized
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2021
Jan Grumiller
Analyzing industrial policy regimes within global production networks: the Ethiopian leather industry
This article contributes to debates on how to broaden and deepen our understanding of the interrelationships between the state and global production networks (GPNs). It proposes that combining the GPN framework and the developmental regime perspective based on a strategic-relational conceptualizatio...
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2021
Sherwat E. Ibrahim, Miguel A. Centeno, Thayer S. Patterson, Peter W. Callahan
Resilience in Global Value Chains: A Systemic Risk Approach
Global value chains (GVCs) have increased efficiencies, accelerated production, reduced costs, and increased wealth and opportunities for workers, firms, nations, and the global economy as a whole. However, the benefits and efficiencies provided by these GVCs come at the cost of increasing risks. Th...
Uncategorized
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2021
Joerg S. Hofstetter, Valentina De Marchi, Joseph Sarkis, Kannan Govindan, Robert Klassen, Aldo R. Ometto, Katharina S. Spraul, Nancy Bocken, Weslynne S. Ashton, Sanjay Sharma, Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Charlotte Jensen, Paul Dewick, Patrick Schröder, Noemi Sinkovics, Sherwat E. Ibrahim, Luke Fiske, Anthony Goerzen & Diego Vazquez-Brust
From Sustainable Global Value Chains to Circular Economy — Different Silos, Different Perspectives, but Many Opportunities to Build Bridges
A growing interest in the circular economy concept has pushed the discourse in various management-related disciplines beyond established boundaries, with calls to better address how such a model may be developed in a world of global value chains. Still, the conventional linear economy model continue...
Uncategorized
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2021
Thomas Farole, Farzad Taheripour, Maksym Chepeliev, Richard Damania, Nancy Lozano Gracia and Jason Daniel Russ
Putting the Green Back in Greenbacks: Opportunities for a Truly Green Stimulus
Can countries reorient their productive capacity to become more environmentally friendly and inclusive? To investigate this question, this paper uses a standard input-output modeling framework and data from 141 countries and regions to construct a new global data set of employment, value-added, gree...
2021
Thomas Farole, Ali Zafar, Iuliia Mironova and Liane Asta Lohde
Country Private Sector Diagnostic: Creating Markets In Bangladesh – Unleashing the Private Sector to Sustain Development Success
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) assesses opportunities and requirements for expanding the private sector’s contribution to sustainable economic growth in Bangladesh. It evaluates the chief constraints to realizing private sector potential and identifies strategic entry points for pri...
Eastern/Non-EU Europe and Central Asia
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2021
Xiaolan Fu, David Emes, and Jun Hou
Multinational enterprises and structural transformation in emerging and developing countries: A survey of the literature
This paper presents a review of the literature concerning the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and structural transformation in emerging and developing countries based on journal publications over the 2000 to 2020 period. Both outward and inward foreign direct investment by mult...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Services
⌵
2021
Markus Krajewski, Kristel Tonstad and Franziska Wohltmann
Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence in Germany and Norway: Stepping, or Striding, in the Same Direction?
Germany and Norway are the two latest states to adopt laws mandating human rights due diligence by companies. Germany adopted a Law on Supply Chain Due Diligence (German Law) on 10 June 2021. The same day, the Norwegian parliament passed a Transparency Act (Norwegian Act) requiring human rights and ...
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
⌵
2020
Peter J. Buckley, Roger Strange, Marcel P. Timmer and Gaaitzen J. de Vries
Catching-up in the global factory: Analysis and policy implications
MNEs shape the location of activities in the world economy, linking diverse regions in what has been called the global factory. This study portrays the evolution of incomes and employment in the global factory using a quantitative input–output approach. We find emerging economies forging ahead rel...
2020
Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Ayala Wineman, Sarah Young, Justice Tambo, Carolina Vargas, Thomas Reardon, Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Jaron Porciello, Nasra Gathoni, Livia Bizikova, Alessandra Galiè & Ashley Celestin
A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions
Sustainable Development Goal 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food and nutrition security and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. This requires that small-scale producers be included in, and benefit from, the rapid growth and transformation under way in food systems. Small-scale producers interact...
Agriculture and food
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Michael Dolislager, Thomas Reardon, Aslihan Arslan, Louise Fox, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Christine Sauer, David L. Tschirley
Youth and Adult Agrifood System Employment in Developing Regions: Rural (Peri-urban to Hinterland) vs. Urban
Using a unique dataset covering 178,794 households with 460,654 individuals spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we explore employment of youths across rural zones (peri-urban, intermediate, hinterland) and urban areas. Using full-time equivalents (FTEs), we compare own-farming versus farm-wage...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
South Asia
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2020
Joachim C. F. Ehrenthal, Thomas W. Gruen, Joerg S. Hofstetter
Recommendations for Conducting Service-Dominant Logic Research
In the digital age, companies compete on how well their service meets customer needs and solves customer problems, interacting with ever more actors to fulfill their promise. A well-suited mid-range theory to conduct research in this “new” world is service-dominant (S-D) logic. However, there ar...
Uncategorized
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2020
Joachim von Braun
Climate Change Risks for Agriculture, Health, and Nutrition
The stability of global, national, and local food systems is at risk under climate change. Climate change affects food production, availability of and access to food, food quality, food safety, diet quality, and thus people’s nutrition and health. Climate change may further slow progress towards a...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
⌵
2020
von Braun, J., N. Gerber, V. Abresch
Social Change and Policies driving the transformation of consumption in the Food Systems
Agriculture and food
⌵
2020
Anna Pegels and Tilman Altenburg
Latecomer development in a “greening” world: Introduction to the Special Issue
The current transgression of ecological boundaries requires a transformation to a ‘Green Economy’, with rigorous and fast reductions of pollution and resource consumption. Transformative policy reforms towards this aim can lead to economic co-benefits, but they can also be costly, at least for c...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Michael Brüntrup
Agricultural growth corridors in sub-Saharan Africa – new hope for agricultural transformation and rural development?
Agricultural growth corridors – areas along a central transport line that receive intensive agricultural investments – are a recent approach to economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Since they are usually planned and managed as strategic private-public partnerships, they promise to bring t...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Clara Brandi, Jakob Schwab, Axel Berger, Jean-Frédéric Morin
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener?
Environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are increasing in terms of their number and variety. The economic effects of these environmental provisions remain largely unclear. It is, therefore, necessary to determine whether the trend to incorporate environmental provisions in P...
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
⌵
2020
Clara Brandi
The Interaction of Private and Public Governance: The Case of Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil
By providing insights into the interaction between private-driven and public-driven governance initiatives in the context of the “Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) and the “Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil” (ISPO), this article sheds new light the interaction between private and publ...
Agriculture and food
Sustainability standards
⌵
2020
Sandra Cabrera de Leicht, Matteo Fiorini, Clara Brandi, Philip Schleifer, Katharina Bissinger, Niematallah Elfatih Ahmed Elamin, and Santiago Fernandez de Cordova
Linking Voluntary Standards to Sustainable Development Goals
With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations has called on the private sector to contribute more to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This report helps decision makers in the public and private sectors to understand where voluntary sustainability standard...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
⌵
2020
Xiaolan Fu
Digital Transformation of Global Value Chains and Sustainable Post-Pandemic Recovery
This perspective paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global production and trade from the perspective of global value chains. Particular attention is paid to the transmission mechanisms and the role of digital technology in sustainable post-pandemic economic recovery. It argues tha...
Trade and FDI
Services
⌵
2020
Weiß, Daniel, Garcia Bibiana
Respect for Human Rights in Global Value Chains: Risks and Opportunities for German Industries.
The German Federal Government adopted the National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights (NAP) in 2016. This plan lays down German companies’ responsibility to respect human rights. In addition, it provides for a bundle of measures to assist companies with implementing and organising their d...
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Aslihan Arslan, David E. Tschirley, Eva-Maria Egger
Rural Youth Welfare along the Rural-urban Gradient: An Empirical Analysis across the Developing World
We use survey data on 170,000 households from Asia, Latin America and Africa, global geo-spatial data, and an economic geography framework to highlight five findings about rural youth in developing countries. First, the youth share in population is falling rapidly, and youth numbers are stable or fa...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
Latin America
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2020
Joseph Goeb, Andrew Dillon, Frank Lupi, David Tschirley
Pesticides: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Agricultural intensification can negatively affect farmer and social welfare through health and environmental externalities if producers have imperfect knowledge of the risks posed by agricultural inputs. This paper explores the effects of health-risk information on the demand for substitutes in the...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
⌵
2020
Fabio Landini, Rasmus Lema, Franco Malerba
Demand-led catch-up: a history-friendly model of latecomer development in the global green economy
This article examines the role played by demand in catching up and in leadership changes in green industries, motivated by the belief that demand-led catch-up is a prevalent pathway in such industries. The article first examines stylized cases of sectoral green catch-up by China in which the local m...
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
⌵
2020
M. Kaplan, D. Busemann, K. Wirtgen
Trilateral Cooperation in German Development Cooperation
EU / Western Europe
⌵
2020
Nicole Helmerich, Gale Raj-Reichert, Sabrina Zajak
Exercising associational and networked power through the use of digital technology by workers in global value chains
While there are heated debates about how digitalization affects production, management and consumption in the context of global value chains, less attention is paid to how workers use digital technologies to organize and formulate demands and hence exercise power. This paper explores how workers in ...
Trade and FDI
South Asia
Energy
⌵
2020
Gale Raj-Reichert, Helena Gräf
Socially responsible public procurement by the city and districts of Berlin: protecting workers in global supply chains
Workers in factories of global supply chains in the global South producing goods governments purchase often face poor working conditions. A governance tool to improve the situation is socially responsible public procurement. We assess this potential vis-à-vis the newly revised public procurement la...
Social and working conditions
⌵
2020
Makaiko G. Khonje, Olivier Ecker, Matin Qaim
Effects of Modern Food Retailers on Adult and Child Diets and Nutrition
In many developing countries, food environments are changing rapidly, with modern retailers—such as supermarkets—gaining in importance. Previous studies have suggested that the rise of modern retailers contributes to overweight and obesity. Effects of modern retailers on dietary quality have not...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2020
Chandra S.R. Nuthalapati, Rajib Sutradhar, Thomas Reardon, Matin Qaim
Supermarket procurement and farmgate prices in India
Supermarkets have gained in importance in the food systems of many developing countries, with profound implications for smallholder farmers. Several studies analyzed effects of selling to supermarkets on smallholder productivity and income. However, no previous work systematically analyzed effects o...
Agriculture and food
East Asia and Pacific
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2020
Bethelhem Legesse Debela, Esther Gehrke, Matin Qaim
Links between Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Rural Tanzania
Improving child nutrition and empowering women are two important and closely connected development goals. Fostering female employment is often seen as an avenue to serve both these goals, especially if it helps to empower the mothers of undernourished children. However, maternal employment can influ...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Juliano Correa, Elías Cisneros, Jan Börner, Alexander Pfaff, Marcelo Costa, and Raoni Rajão
Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil
The Amazon Fund is the world's largest program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), funded with over US $1b donated by Norway and Germany between 2008 and 2017 to reward Brazil for prior deforestation reductions. Olhos D'Água da Amazônia is cited as a leading proj...
Environment and climate change
Latin America
⌵
2020
Neus Escobar, E. Jorge Tizado, Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, Pernilla Löfgren, Jan Börner, and Javier Godar
Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil’s soy exports
Reliable estimates of carbon and other environmental footprints of agricultural commodities require capturing a large diversity of conditions along global supply chains. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) faces limitations when it comes to addressing spatial and temporal variability in production, transpor...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
Latin America
⌵
2020
Wei Tian, Miaojie Yu
Distribution, outward FDI, and productivity heterogeneity: China and cross-countries’ evidence
This paper examines distribution-oriented outward FDI using Chinese multinational firm–level data. Distribution outward FDI refers to Chinese parent firms in manufacturing that penetrate foreign markets through wholesale trade affiliates that resell exportable goods. Our estimations correct for ra...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
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2020
Robert Koopman, John Hancock, Roberta Piermartini, Eddy Bekkers
The Value of the WTO
Recent developments in global trade include actions by major global traders that lie outside the norms of behaviour of the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the last 20 years. Member frustrations with the slow pace of negotiations and concerns about strategies and behaviours of other members appro...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Neil M. Coe
Logistical geographies
Although logistics are fundamentally geographical and of critical importance to contemporary society, it is only relatively recently that human geographers and cognate social scientists have started to meaningfully engage with the topic. This paper explores this recent growth of interest, which enco...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
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2020
Lindsay Whitfield, Cornelia Staritz
Local supplier firms in Madagascar’s apparel export industry: Upgrading paths, transnational social relations and regional production networks
This article asks whether and how local firms in low-income countries can participate, upgrade and capture value in apparel global value chains in the context of increased entry barriers and asymmetric power relations. It focuses on Madagascar, which is the top apparel exporter in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Energy
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2020
Lindsay Whitfield, Cornelia Staritz, Ayelech T. Melese, Sameer Azizi
Technological Capabilities, Upgrading, and Value Capture in Global Value Chains: Local Apparel and Floriculture Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Many local firms in sub-Saharan African countries are failing to enter and upgrade in new manufacturing and agribusiness export sectors. This article argues that we need to look more closely at the costly, risky, and uncertain firm-level processes of building capabilities in order to understand this...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Energy
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2020
Lindsay Whitfield, Cornelia Staritz, Mike Morris
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia’s Apparel Sector
This article examines whether low‐income countries can still benefit from participating in manufacturing global value chains (GVCs) in terms of broader industrial development in a global context of greater competition and higher requirements. It contends that developing internationally competitive...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Energy
⌵
2020
Lindsay Whitfield, Cornelia Staritz
The Learning Trap in Late Industrialisation: Local Firms and Capability Building in Ethiopia’s Apparel Export Industry
Local firms in new supplier countries face major challenges in entering manufacturing global value chains (GVCs) in the context of increased competition and requirements. To understand these challenges, we argue for the importance of looking more closely at local firm capability building, which is a...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Energy
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2020
Raza, W., Krajewski, M., Tröster, B., Wolfslehner, B.
How can international trade contribute to sustainable forestry and the preservation of the world’s forests through the Green Deal?
High deforestation rates, particularly in tropical areas, remain a pressing concern for the international community, given their impacts on the global climate and the loss of biodiversity. The EU has committed to promoting sustainable forest management both domestically and internationally. However,...
Environment and climate change
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2020
Grumiller, J.; Raza, W.; Grohs, H.
Strategies for sustainable upgrading in global value chains: the Egyptian textile and apparel sector
The promotion of sustainable value chains is on the rise in the EU, with important implications for textile and apparel (T&A) products. EU T&A supplier countries and firms will increasingly have to adapt to the new EU value chain and market dynamics. Based on a case study of the Egyptian T&a...
The Middle East and North Africa
Energy
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2020
Anthony Goerzen, Simon Peter Iskander, Joerg Hofstetter
The effect of institutional pressures on business-led interventions to improve social compliance among emerging market suppliers in global value chains
Emerging market governments are incented to attract global value chain (GVC) activities to fuel economic growth. At the same time, in light of real and perceived workplace-related injustices within emerging markets, GVC lead firms are under pressure to improve social standard compliance within their...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
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2020
Wilts, H.; Schinkel, J.; Feder, L.
Prevention of plastic waste in production and consumption by multi-actor partnerships
The study sheds light on the background of the prevention of plastic waste from packaging and disposable products by explaining the need for action, the environmental impacts and risks to human health. Experiences of the members of the PREVENT Waste Alliance and their partners in the prevention of p...
Environment and climate change
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2020
Henning Wilts, Jennifer Schinkel, Carina Koop
Effectiveness and efficiency of food-waste prevention policies, circular economy, and food industry
According to the World Food Organization about one third of produced food is lost every year on the way from the field to the plate. This level of waste is not only irresponsible from an ethical and social point of view, but also represents a considerable loss of natural resources that are necessary...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
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2020
Morris M, Robbins G., Hansen U., and I. Nygard
Energy and Industrial Policy Failure in the South African Wind Renewable Energy Global Value Chain: The political economy dynamics driving a stuttering localisation process
This paper utilises a combination of a political economy approach and a GVC framework to analyse the dynamics of the wind energy value chain in South Africa. The paper focuses on the complex intertwined interplay between energy and industrial policy and shows how they negatively impacted on effor...
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
⌵
2020
Philip Sauré, Philipp Herkenhoff
How Expected Inflation Distorts the Current Account and the Valuation Effect
We show that the current account balance (CA) is systematically distorted by an inflation effect, which arises because income on foreignissued debt is recorded as nominal interest in the currency of denomination. Since nominal interest includes compensations for expected inflation, increases in the ...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Menusch Khadjavi, Kacana Sipangule, and Rainer Thiele
Social Capital and Large-Scale Agricultural Investments: An Experimental Investigation
Following the 2007–8 global food crisis, agricultural producers have invested in large tracts of land in developing countries. We investigate how the arrival of large-scale farms changes inter-personal trust and reciprocity, important components of social capital, in traditional villages. We elici...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2020
Hamidou Jawara and Rainer Thiele
The Nutrient-Income Elasticity in Ultra-Poor Households: Evidence from Kenya
The relationship between nutrient intake and wealth of poor households continues to be an issue of huge policy relevance. In this paper, we contribute to the ongoing debate on the nutrient-income elasticity using a sample of ultra-poor households with orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya. To est...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2020
Daniel Flemes; Svenja Schöneich
Indigene Völker unter Druck
Der Druck auf die indigenen Völker Lateinamerikas steigt bis hin zur Existenzbedrohung. Die linkspopulistische Regierung Mexikos setzt sich ebenso wenig für die Interessen der Indigenen ein wie die konservative Übergangsregierung in Bolivien. Brasiliens rechtsradikaler Präsident betreibt gar ein...
Agriculture and food
Mining
Latin America
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2020
Christina Saulich
Accessing Global Value Chains: The Politics of Promoting Export-Driven Industrialisation and Upgrading in the Mozambican Cashew Processing Industry
This working paper focuses on the question: How does politics shape the promotion of export-driven industrialisation and firm-level upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa? It exemplifies this question with an in-depth, qualitative study of the cashew processing industry in Mozambique in the period from...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Jo van Biesebroeck, Alexander Schmitt
Testing Predictions on Supplier Governance from the Global Value Chains Literature
A vast empirical literature analyzes the determinants of the make-or-buy decision, but firms also need to decide how to organize their supplier relationships when they choose to buy. The global value chains framework provides predictions on the nature of buyer-supplier collaboration. We use a unique...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2020
Sébastien Miroudot
Reshaping the policy debate on the implications of COVID-19 for global supply chains
Disruptions in global supply chains in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have re-opened the debate on the vulnerabilities associated with production in complex international production networks. To build resilience in supply chains, several authors suggest making them shorter, more domestic, and ...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Heiwai Tang, Fei Wang, Zhi Wang
Domestic segment of global value chains in China under state capitalism
This paper studies the relationship between the changing domestic segment of global value chains and the return of state capitalism in China. To this end, we propose a method to estimate an extended input-output (IO) table that tracks inter-sector transactions between different types of firms in a d...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2020
Sébastien Miroudot, Håkan Nordström
Made in the World? Global Value Chains in the Midst of Rising Protectionism
In the last decade, the concept of ‘global value chain’ (GVC) has become popular to describe the way firms fragment production into different stages that are located in different economies. However, recent evidence indicates that there are lower levels of fragmentation of production. Some author...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Bart Los, Marcel Timmer
Measuring bilateral exports of value added: a unified framework.
We provide a unified framework for measuring bilateral exports of value added. We outline a general methodology that encompasses the measures introduced by Johnson and Noguera (2012) (value added consumed abroad) and Los et al. (2016) (value added in exports), to which we refer as VAX-C and VAX-D, ...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Gary Gereffi
What does the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about global value chains? The case of medical supplies
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic shortage in the medical supplies needed to treat the virus due to a massive surge in demand as the disease circled the globe during the first half of 2020. Prior to the crisis, there was an interdependence of trade and production for medical supplies, with...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
⌵
2020
Giovanni Pasquali, Shane Godfrey, Khalid Nadvi
Understanding regional value chains through the interaction of public and private governance: Insights from Southern Africa’s apparel sector
Regional value chains (RVCs) and South–South trade are increasingly considered key features of 21st-century globalisation. This article investigates how RVCs are shaped by the interaction of private and public governance. It evaluates how this interaction unfolded in Southern Africa’s apparel RV...
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
Services
Social and working conditions
⌵
2020
Johan A. Oldekop, Giovanni Pasquali, Uma Kothari, Aarti Krishnan, Tom Lavers, Aminu Mamman, Diana Mitlin, Negar Monazam Tabrizi, Tanja R. Müller, Khalid Nadvi, Rose Pritchard, Nicholas Jepson, Kate Pruce, Chris Rees, Jaco Renken, Antonio Savoia, Seth Schindler, Annika Surmeier, Gindo Tampubolon, Matthew Tyce, Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Ambarish Karamchedu, Martin Hess, Rory Horner, Upasak Das, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari, Bina Agarwal, Matthew Alford, Oliver Bakewell, Nicola Banks, Stephanie Barrientos, Tanja Bastia, Anthony J. Bebbington, Ralitza Dimova, Sam Hickey, Richard Duncombe, Charis Enns, David Fielding, Christopher Foster, Timothy Foster, Tomas Frederiksen, Ping Gao, Tom Gillespie, Richard Heeks, Yin-Fang Zhang
COVID-19 and the case for global development
COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge for all countries, through the failure of public health as a global public good. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the falsity of any as...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Janpeter Schilling; Elke Hertig, Yves Tramblay; Jürgen Scheffran
Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa
North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones. The present article aims to address this divide by assessing and comparing the climate change vulnerability of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and...
The Middle East and North Africa
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2020
Janpeter Schilling; Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Riccarda Flemmer, Rebecca Froese
A political ecology perspective on resource extraction and human security in Kenya, Bolivia and Peru
This paper analyzes how the governance of non-renewable natural resources affects different dimensions of human security in local sites of extraction. We show how the analysis of human security can be embedded in a multi-scalar political ecology perspective to combine the strong suits of both approa...
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
Latin America
⌵
2020
Insa Flachsbarth, Jann Lay, Kerstin Nolte, Angela Harding, Ward Anseeuw, and Jeremy Bourgoin
Responsible Large-Scale Agricultural Investments in and by G20 Countries: A Call for more Transparency
Many international agricultural land investment projects are criticized because of their disrespect of land tenure rights, the few benefits they provide local populations, and the often displayed negative environmental impacts. The Group of 20 (G20) has recognized the need for more responsible land ...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
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2020
Jann Lay, Tevin Tafese
Promoting private investment to create jobs: A review of the evidence
The promotion of private investment, in particular in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), has been a key component of economic development strategies since the early 1990s. Recent development policy initiatives, for example the G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) but also Germany's "Marshall Plan...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
Bernard Hoekman
Global Value Chains: Inter-Industry Linkages, Trade Costs and Policies
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
Christopher Findlay, Bernard Hoekman
Value chain approaches to reducing policy spillovers on international business
Government policy can add to the costs of doing international business. It can distort the construction of and raise the costs of operation of global value chains (GVCs), to the detriment of the participating economies. Given rising technological and market-driven headwinds confronting GVCs, countri...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Caio Torres Mazzi, Gideon Ndubuisi, and Elvis Korku Avenyo
Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South Africa
Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009-17, this paper investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In particular, the paper uses extant classifications of internationally...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
Services
⌵
2020
Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria
Competition and Relational Contracts in the Rwanda Coffee Chain
How does competition affect market outcomes when formal contracts are not enforceable and parties’ resort to relational contracts? Difficulties with measuring relational contracts and dealing with the endogeneity of competition have frustrated attempts to answer this question. We make progress by ...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Gideon Ndubuisi, Emmanuel Mensah and Solomon Owusu
Export Variety and Imported Intermediate Inputs: Industry-Level Evidence from Africa
Imported intermediate inputs offer access to lower-priced, higher quality, and a wider variety of inputs that can increase the possibility of producing and selling more diversified products in foreign markets. In this paper, we examine this relationship using a novel manufacturing industry-level dat...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Services
⌵
2020
Keun Lee, Franco Malerba, Annalisa Primi
The fourth industrial revolution, changing global value chains and industrial upgrading in emerging economies
The 4IR can open windows of opportunity for emerging economies but also raises red flags in terms of the main challenges that these changes pose to firms, industrial systems and policy approaches. Benefiting from it will not be automatic, as these economies suffer from several gaps that hamper their...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Annalisa Primi, Manuel Toselli
A global perspective on industry 4.0 and development: new gaps or opportunities to leapfrog?
This paper contributes to the debate on digitalisation and development focusing on industrial organisation and production processes. It analyses the evolution of the global development landscape since the 1990s and provides a taxonomy of channels through which Industry 4.0 is redefining the patterns...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Justine Falciola, Marion Jansen, Valentina Rollo
Defining firm competitiveness: A multidimensional framework
Defining and measuring competitiveness remains a subject of interest as well as debate: policy makers need to understand how competitive their country is relative to others, and how their competitive position evolves overtime (Fagerberg & Srholec, 2017). As such, well-known indicators of country per...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Julian Glitsch, Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Saskia Mösle, Frauke Steglich
Lagging behind? German Foreign Direct Investment in Africa
German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa is lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and other economies. It represented only 1 percent of the German total FDI stock abroad in 2018 and is concentrated in few African countries. Overall, around 8...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
The Middle East and North Africa
⌵
2020
Saskia Mösle, Frauke Steglich
Policy instruments for FDI promotion in Africa
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially over the past decades and so has FDI in Africa. However, still only 3 percent of global FDI stocks and 1 percent of German FDI is located in Africa. There are several policy instruments that can contribute to higher investment in dev...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
The Middle East and North Africa
⌵
2020
Adnan Seric, Holger Görg, Wan-Hsin Liu and Michael Windisch
Risk, resilience and recalibration in global value chains
Current global value chains are highly efficient, specialized and interconnected, but also highly vulnerable to global risks. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stark demonstration of this point, causing supply-side disruptions in the first quarter of 2020, as China and other Asian economies were hit ...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
Haiou Mao, Holger Görg
Friends like this: The impact of the US–China trade war on global value chains
This paper considers the indirect impact the recent tariff increases between the United States and China can have on third countries through links in global supply chains. We combine data from input–output relationships, imports and tariffs, to calculate the impact of the tariff increases by both ...
2020
Lars Buur, Rasmus H. Pedersen, Malin J. Nystrand, José J. Macuane, and Thabit Jacob
The politics of natural resource investments and rights in Africa: A theoretical approach
Over the past decade and a half, large-scale investments in natural resources in African countries have increased dramatically. While investments in natural resources and agriculture have become more important for African economies, since they have stimulated economic growth and made regimes depende...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
⌵
2020
Jedrzej George Frynas, Lars Buur
The presource curse in Africa: Economic and political effects of anticipating natural resource revenues
The notion of the ‘resource curse’ suggests that large inflows of extractive industry revenues cause many adverse macro-economic and political effects. The resource curse literature focuses on the impact of actual inflows of extractive resource revenues. However, anticipation of future resource ...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
⌵
2020
Reena Das Nair
The “supermarket revolution” in the South
This chapter evaluates the extent of 'supermarketisation' and internationalisation of supermarket chains and the implications on consumers, suppliers and the competitive landscape. While the degree of both supermarketisation and internationalisation has not been to the extent that was predicted in t...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
Reena Das Nair and Namhla Landani
New approaches to supermarket supplier development programmes in Southern Africa
Supermarkets are strong catalysts to stimulate the growth and development of suppliers of processed food and manufactured products in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the role of supermarkets and governments in developing supplier capabilities through supplier development programmes. In South Af...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Reena Das Nair and Namhla Landani
The role of supermarket chains in developing food, other fast-moving consumer goods and consumer goods suppliers in regional markets
Supermarkets are strong catalysts to stimulate the growth and development of producers and suppliers of processed food and manufactured products in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the role of supermarkets and governments in developing supplier capabilities through supplier development programme...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Reena Das Nair and Namhla Landani
Making agricultural value chains more inclusive through technology and innovation
Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both radical and incremental, ranging widely t...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Reena Das Nair and Shingie Chisoro
Confronting entry barriers in South Africa’s grocery retail sector
Extensive urbanisation along with the associated demand for increased convenience has spurred the demand for fresh food, processed food and household products sold through supermarket chains. From a consumer perspective, supermarkets offer a convenient ‘one-stop-shopping’ experience that can gre...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2020
Bettina Rudloff, Christine Wieck
Sustainable Supply Chains in the Agricultural Sector: Adding Value Instead of Just Exporting Raw Materials
The corona pandemic has placed supply chains back on the agenda. The economic repercussions spotlight the complexity of today’s global division of labour. Current German and European initiatives are seeking to tighten the responsibility of final business consumers for human rights and sustainabili...
Agriculture and food
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
⌵
2020
Bettina Rudloff
A Stable Countryside for a Stable Country? The Effects of a DCFTA with the EU on Tunisian Agriculture
Agriculture is central to the stability of Tunisia’s economy and society. The new Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) under negotiation with the EU offers opportunities for the agricultural sector, but also presents risks for the country as a whole. Within Tunisia there is strong e...
Agriculture and food
The Middle East and North Africa
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
⌵
2020
Andreas Stamm
Inclusive and sustainable agriculture in Costa Rica – a quality label to promote solidarity-based trade
Compared to other Latin American countries, Costa Rica has good indicators for economic growth and social development. Historically, it has managed to combine inward growth with intelligent use of the options offered by international markets. In recent decades, the country has undergone a strong str...
Latin America
⌵
2020
Stamm, Andreas, Luise Dietrich, Heike Harling, Laura Häußler, Florian Münch, Jana Preiß, Jan Siebert
Sustainable public procurement as a tool to foster sustainable development in Costa Rica: challenges and recommendations for policy implementation
In 2015, Costa Rica was the first country in Latin America to approve a National Policy for Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP). In 2018, a research team from DIE studied the efforts to make SPP a reality in Costa Rica and developed policy conclusions, partly drawing on international experience. ...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
Anthony Goerzen, Ari Van Assche
Global value Chain Governance: A Multinational Enterprise Capabilities View
The drivers of economic globalization are leading many firms to disaggregate and redistribute their operations by outsourcing and offshoring. The result of the process is to create global value chains (GVCs) that are a collection of loosely affiliated, spatially distributed firms engaged in bringing...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Gender, Climate and Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Diagnostics to Solutions
The evidence base on the relationship between climate change and security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has expanded over the past two years. Recent research has shown that a wide variety of phenomena—from extreme weather events in the Caribbean, to soil erosion in Central America, to c...
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Latin America
⌵
2020
Adriana Erthal Abdenur
How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Curb Deforestation in the Amazon?
Deforestation has traditionally been viewed as an environmental issue, but, increasingly, illegal logging in rainforests is being understood as an issue of transnational organized crime. Forests cover 31 percent of the planet, are home to 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial species of animals an...
Agriculture and food
Mining
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
Latin America
⌵
2020
Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Protecting archaeological sites in the Amazon is essential for environmental wellbeing
Raging fires, expanding mineral extraction and land clearing for agribusiness are not only destroying Amazonian lands and biodiversity, they are also eradicating fundamental knowledge on land stewardship. Climate diplomacy has a key role to play in protecting archaeological sites that preserve lesso...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
Latin America
⌵
2020
Krishnan, A and Maxwell, S
Counting carbon in global trade Why imported emissions challenge the climate regime and what might be done about it
The foundations of the climate regime are under threat, with significant implications for developing countries. This report identifies two main threats to the climate regime. The first is the growing importance of emissions traded across national borders, currently accounting for up to 38% of globa...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Krishnan, A, Banga, K and Mendez-Parra, M
Disruptive technologies in agricultural value chains: Insights from East Africa
Global food demand is expected to increase by somewhere between 59% and 98% by 2050 as the world population reaches an estimated 9.7 billion. Food production is especially critical in Africa, where over 70% of the population rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. Against a backdrop of the rapid...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
DeMarchi, V, DiMaria, E, Krishnan, A and Ponte, S
Environmental upgrading in global value chains
Responding to stakeholder pressure, firms are increasingly challenged to reduce their environmental impacts. This chapter reviews the potential upgrading trajectories for firms engaged in global value chains (GVCs) to effectively reduce the impacts on the environment of all activities linked to thei...
Environment and climate change
⌵
2020
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Putting the French Duty of Vigilance Law in Context: Towards Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations in the Global South?
The adoption of the French Duty of Vigilance law has been celebrated as a milestone for advancing the transnational business and human rights regime. The law can contribute to harden corporate accountability by challenging the “separation principle” of transnational companies and by obligating c...
Environment and climate change
EU / Western Europe
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Mark Alan Heuer, Usman Khalid, Stefan Seuring
Bottoms up: Delivering sustainable value in the base of the pyramid
Despite a wealth of expertise involving leading institutions over at least 15 years, a base of the pyramid (BoP) model resulting in scalability has yet to emerge. We posit that institutional gaps between BoP goals of developing human and social capital on one hand and a short-term profit focus of bu...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Markus Krajewski
A Nightmare or a Noble Dream? Establishing Investor Obligations Through Treaty-Making and Treaty-Application
This article assesses different approaches currently discussed and developed in international human rights and investment law to establish investor obligations. The article begins with a general framework of analysing and comparing these approaches. Next, attempts to include direct obligations of bu...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Sanchita Banerjee Saxena
Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure poin...
South Asia
Social and working conditions
⌵
2020
Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria
Competition and Relational Contracts in the Rwanda Coffee Chain
How does competition affect market outcomes when formal contracts are not enforceable and parties resort to relational contracts? Difficulties with measuring relational contracts and dealing with the endogeneity of competition have frustrated attempts to answer this question. We make progress by stu...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
⌵
2020
Iain J. Fraser, Julia Schwarzkopf, Martin Müller
Exploring Supplier Sustainability Audit Standards: Potential for and Barriers to Standardization
Global focal companies are increasingly required and expected to monitor the sustainability risks and activities in their supply chains, which has resulted in increasing supplier sustainability audit activity and growth in the number of sustainability initiatives/associations. While common, shared a...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Iain J. Fraser, Martin Müller, Julia Schwarzkopf
Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry
Sustainability in supply chain management (SSCM) has become established in both academia and increasingly in practice. As stakeholders continue to require focal companies (FCs) to take more responsibility for their entire supply chains (SCs), this has led to the development of multi-tier SSCM (MT-SS...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2020
Melanie Müller
Versorgungssicherheit: Marktdynamiken und Machtverschiebungen einplanen
Die Covid-19-Pandemie und der von ihr verursachte Einbruch des globalen Handels haben in verschiedenen Weltregionen eine Debatte über Abhängigkeiten von globalen Lieferbeziehungen entfacht. Mittlerweile deuten sich geographische Machtverschiebungen in Lieferketten an. Noch ist ungewiss, wie sich d...
Sustainability standards
⌵
2020
Maria-Therese Gustafsson; Roger Merino; Martin Scurrah
Domestication of International Norms for Sustainable Resource Governance: Elite Capture in Peru
In recent years, international actors have promoted international norms related to sustainable and inclusive resource governance. However, we know little about how such attempts are contested and adapted in domestic reform processes. Drawing on insights from norm diffusion and institutionalist theor...
Mining
Sustainability standards
Latin America
⌵
2020
Erik Churchill, José-Antonio Monteiro, Victor Stolzenburg & Deborah Winkler
Women and Trade: The role of trade in promoting gender equality
In view of the complexity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is important to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate policies to ensure that trade contributes to enhancing opportunities for all. Building on new analysis and data brok...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
⌵
2020
Ha‐Joon Chang, Antonio Andreoni
Industrial Policy in the 21st Century
Industrial policy is back at the centre stage of policy debate, while the world is undergoing dramatic transformations. This article contributes to the debate by developing a new theory of industrial policy, incorporating some issues that have been neglected so far and taking into account the recent...
Trade and FDI
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2020
Merel Serdijn, Ans Kolk, Luc Fransen
Uncovering missing links in global value chain research – and implications for corporate social responsibility and international business
Amidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international business (IB), this paper aims to identify a clear “missing link” in this literature and discusses implications for research and corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy-making and implementation. Because IB GVC rese...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2020
Philip Schleifer, Yixian Sun
Reviewing the impact of sustainability certification on food security in developing countries
What is the impact of sustainability certification on food security in developing countries? This article explores the issue through a systematic review of the extant scholarship, complemented by a selective review of key studies examining the wider socio-economic effects of certification that may a...
Sustainability standards
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2020
Jörg H. Grimm, Joerg Hofstetter, Joseph Sarkis
Corporate sustainability standards in multi-tier supply chains – an institutional entrepreneurship perspective
This study extends research on buyer firm roles in improving supplier sustainability practices by considering institutions – norms and rules – in the organisational field in which suppliers and sub-suppliers operate, exerting pressures on these actors to align their respectivepractices. We intro...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2020
Marion Dovis, Chahir Zaki
Global Value Chains and Local Business Environments: Which Factors Really Matter in Developing Countries?
This study assesses the effect of an economy’s business environment on the ability of firms to be part of a global value chain (GVC). With the use of a comprehensive firm-level dataset from the World Bank Enterprise Survey—and with a special focus on the countries of the Middle East and North Af...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
The Middle East and North Africa
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2020
Jens Newig, Edward Challies, Benedetta Cotta, Andrea Lenschow, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability
Telecoupling constitutes a particular class of globalized environmental issues that are neither local-cumulative, nor transboundary, nor concerning global commons, but that arise because of specific linkages between distal regions. Such telecoupled issues, e.g., associated with global commodity chai...
Sustainability standards
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2019
World Bank
World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, howe...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
Mining
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
Environment and climate change
The Middle East and North Africa
EU / Western Europe
Social and working conditions
Energy
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
Latin America
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2019
Victor Stolzenburg, Daria Taglioni, Deborah Winkler
Economic upgrading through global value chain participation: which policies increase the value-added gains?
The emergence of global value chains has opened up new ways to achieve development and industrialization. However, new evidence shows that not all countries have gained from participating in global value chains, and that country-specific characteristics matter for economic upgrading in global value ...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2019
Stefano Ponte
Green Capital Accumulation: Business and Sustainability Management in a World of Global Value Chains
Tackling climate change and other environmental crises entails a critical reflection on processes and outcomes that are behind sustainability management by business. Sustainability has become a commodity itself, to be traded, bought, sold and managed like all others. How lead firms in global value c...
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2019
Mahwish J Khan, Stefano Ponte, Peter Lund-Thomsen
The ‘factory manager dilemma’: Purchasing practices and environmental upgrading in apparel global value chains
Economic and environmental upgrading in global value chains are intertwined processes. The existing global value chain literature has so far articulated the relationships between economic and social upgrading but has only recently started to explore the challenges of environmental upgrading from the...
Environment and climate change
Energy
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Janina Grabs, Stefano Ponte
The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network
The configurations of global value chains and production networks are constantly changing, leading to new trajectories and geographical distributions of value creation and capture. In this article, we offer a 40-year evolutionary perspective on power and governance in the global coffee value chain a...
Social and working conditions
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2019
Wiebke Hagedorn, Henning Wilts
Who should waste less? Food waste prevention and rebound effects in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
The issue of food waste prevention plays a role in global and national policies. Such prevention can reap economic and, in particular, environmental benefits. As our study shows, these environmental benefits are often lost due to indirect rebound effects. Income differences play a crucial role here....
Agriculture and food
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2019
Thomas Reardon, Ruben Echeverria, Julio Berdegué, Bart Minten, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, David Tschirley, David Zilberman
Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations
Developing regions' food system has transformed rapidly in the past several decades. The food system is the dendritic cluster of R&D value chains, and the value chains linking input suppliers to farmers, and farmers upstream to wholesalers and processors midstream, to retailers then consumers downst...
Agriculture and food
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2019
Joerg S. Hofstetter
Multi-tier sustainable supply chain management
A focal company’s boundary of accountability for social or environmental misconduct in its supply chain is hard to define. Non-sustainable business practices can occur at all stages in the supply chain: at raw material exploitation, intermediate production, or transportation. And it can occur atan...
Sustainability standards
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2019
Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman, Marion Jansen, Philip Schleifer, Olga Solleder, Regina Taimasova, Joseph Wozniak
Institutional design of voluntary sustainability standards systems: Evidence from a new database
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have become a significant element of the governance of international trade and production. Even though VSS are not mandatory (required by law), in practice they are often necessary for producers to participate in global value chains. Finally, VSS are often co...
Sustainability standards
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2019
Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
A key decision facing firms is the extent of control to exert over the different stages in their production processes. We develop and test a property rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain. We construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and nonintegrated inpu...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Stamm Andreas, Tilman Altenburg, Maximilian Müngersdorff, Tim Stoffel, and Kasper Vrolijk
Soziale und ökologische Herausforderungen der globalen Textilwirtschaft: Lösungsbeiträge der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Bekleidung für den rasch wachsenden Weltmarkt wird fast ausschließlich in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern gefertigt. Die Produktionsbedingungen in diesen Ländern gehen mit erheblichen sozialen und ökologischen Problemen einher. Diese in den Griff zu bekommen, ist eines der wesentlichen Ziele...
Manufacturing
Sustainability standards
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2019
Keppner, Benno, Daniel Weiß, Pietro Bertazzi, Bibiana García
Beyond Rhetoric: Why Foreign Policy Needs to Foster Private Sector SDG Implementation.
From conflict prevention to human rights protection – companies are vital for the success of the 2030 Agenda and foreign policy alike. But progress on SDG implementation in the business world is at a turning point. Foreign policy can and must play a decisive role by building a robust knowledge bas...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris
Trade and Industrialisation in Africa: SMEs, Manufacturing and Cluster Dynamics
Trade in manufacturing through global and regional value chains has played an especially prominent role in global economic growth in recent decades. However, Africa faces severe challenges in growing manufacturing activities in the face of China and Southeast Asia’s competitive dominance of global...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
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2019
Amendolagine, V., Chaminade, C., Guimón, J., & Rabellotti, R.
Cross-border Knowledge Flows Through R&D FDI: Implications for Low-and Middle-income Countries.
R&D related foreign direct investments represent a powerful mechanism for cross-border knowledge sharing that can stimulate the process of technological catch-up. However, low-income countries and smaller middle-income countries remain largely excluded from this kind of global flows of knowledge. In...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2019
Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti
Innovation in global value chains
In this chapter, the authors focus on innovation in global value chains and on the role that such chains play in building and deepening capability. They also focus on the trajectories along which firms, located in developing countries, once inserted into global value chains acquire or lose innovatio...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Vito Amendolagine, Andrea F. Presbitero, Roberta Rabellotti, Marco Sanfilippo
Local sourcing in developing countries: The role of foreign direct investments and global value chains
The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors. Matchin...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2019
M. Kaplan, K. Vorwerk, S. Leiderer
From the Paris Declaration to the 2030 Agenda: Is the global sustainability agenda overburdening development cooperation?
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
EU / Western Europe
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2019
Gale Raj-Reichert
The powers of a social auditor in a global production network: the case of Verité and the exposure of forced labour in the electronics industry
Research on labour governance actors in global production networks (GPNs) has been limited to civil society organisations, firms and governments. Understanding the influence of actors in GPNs has been dealt with singular and overt modes of relational power. This paper contributes to both debates by ...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
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2019
Gale Raj-Reichert
Global Value Chains, Contract Manufacturers, and the Middle-Income Trap: The Electronics Industry in Malaysia
The electronics industry has been a cornerstone to the successful industrialisation process in Malaysia since the 1970s. However, since the 2000s the industry, which is deeply integrated in global value chains, has failed to upgrade. Its stagnation is indicative of the general economic situation in ...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
Social and working conditions
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2019
Cosimo Beverelli, Victor Stolzenburg, Robert B. Koopman, Simon Neumueller
Domestic value chains as stepping stones to global value chain integration
Trade and FDI
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2019
Neil M. Coe, Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Global production networks: mapping recent conceptual developments
In this framing paper for the special issue, we map significant research on global production networks during the past decade in economic geography and adjacent fields. In line with the core aim of the special issue to push for new conceptual advances, the paper focuses on the central elements of GP...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Lone Riisgaard, Peter Lund-Thomsen, and Neil M. Coe
Multistakeholder initiatives in global production networks: naturalizing specific understandings of sustainability through the Better Cotton Initiative
In recent years, various academics, consultants, companies and NGOs have advocated a move towards more cooperative approaches to private sustainability standards to address the widely identified shortcomings of the compliance paradigm. However, is it possible to address these limitations by moving t...
Agriculture and food
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Sotiris Blanas, Adnan Seric, Christian Viegelahn
Job Quality, FDI and Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Using a unique sample of foreign-owned and domestic firms in Sub-Saharan Africa, we study the differences in the quality of jobs that they offer, and identify how these differences are associated with country-level institutional factors. We find that foreign-owned firms offer more stable and secure ...
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
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2019
Chiara Franco, Marco Sanfilippo, Adnan Seric
Investors’ characteristics and the business climate as drivers of backward linkages in Vietnam
This paper analyses the factors determining the establishment of backward linkages and their key features once established. To carry out our analysis, we exploit an original survey conducted in 2011 on roughly 1500 investors based in Vietnam. We show that some characteristics of the investor firm, i...
Trade and FDI
South Asia
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2019
Bernhard Tröster, Rudiger Arnim, Cornelia Staritz, Werner Raza, Jan Grumiller, Hannes Grohs
Delivering on Promises? The Expected Impacts and Implementation Challenges of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and Africa
Economic partnership agreements (EPAs) mark a new era in economic relations between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries that will lead to reciprocal tariff liberalization. Model‐based impact assessments have become a powerful tool in trade negotiations and mixed r...
Sub-saharan Africa
EU / Western Europe
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2019
Morris, M. and C. Staritz
Industrialization paths and industrial policy for developing countries in global value chains
Structural transformation to higher productivity and value-added activities remains a key objective for developing countries. Industrial policy has historically had an important role in supporting such transformation processes. Today, the external context is fundamentally different with the rise of ...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Stefan Pahl, Marcel P. Timmer
Do Global Value Chains Enhance Economic Upgrading? A Long View
Exporting through global value chains (GVCs) has recently been highlighted as a panacea for weak industrialisation trends in the South. We study the long-run effects of GVC participation for a large set of countries between 1970 and 2008. We find strong evidence for the positive effects on productiv...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2019
Nikhil Patel, Zhi Wang, Shang‐Jin Wei
Global Value Chains and Effective Exchange Rates at the Country‐Sector Level
The real effective exchange rate (REER) is one of the most cited statistics in open‐economy macroeconomics. We show that the models used to compute these numbers are not rich enough to allow for the rising importance of global value chains. Moreover, because different sectors within a country part...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Stefan Pahl, Marcel P. Timmer
Patterns of vertical specialisation in trade: long-run evidence for 91 countries
The authors estimate the domestic value-added content in exports of manufacturing goods (VAX-D ratio) for 91 countries over the period from 1970 to 2013. They find a strong decline in the world VAX-D ratio since the mid-1980s mostly accounted for by the substitution of foreign for domestic intermedi...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
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2019
Stefan Pahl, Marcel P. Timmer, Reitze Gouma, Pieter J. Woltjer
Jobs in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Four African Countries in International Perspective
What is the potential for job growth in Africa under participation in global value chains (GVCs)? In this study the concept of GVC jobs is introduced which tracks the number of jobs associated with GVC production of goods. A novel decomposition approach is used to account for GVC jobs by three proxi...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
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2019
Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Reichert (ed.)
Handbook on Global Value Chains
Global value chains (GVCs) are a key feature of the global economy in the 21st century. They show how international investment and trade create cross-border production networks that link countries, firms and workers around the globe. This Handbook describes how GVCs arise and vary across industries ...
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Gary Gereffi
Global value chains and international development policy: Bringing firms, networks and policy-engaged scholarship back in
This article argues that the global value chains (GVC) perspective bridges the firm-specific, private-sector and country-level, societal divide that has separated the international business and international economics literatures. A key mechanism that explains the policy impact of the GVC approach a...
Uncategorized
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2019
Stephanie Barrientos, Lara Bianchi, and Cindy Berman
Gender and governance of global value chains: Promoting the rights of women workers
Private governance channelled through social compliance programmes and gender initiatives of multinational companies have had limited impact in tackling gender discrimination in global value chains (GVCs). The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) provide a public–...
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Stephanie Barrientos
Gender and Work in Global Value Chains
This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of contemporary ...
Social and working conditions
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2019
Janpeter Schilling
An Environment of Insecurity: The Relationship between Environmental Change and Violent Conflict in Northwest Kenya
About the book: Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incomplete, and that purely militar...
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
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2019
Arthur Blouin, Rocco Macchiavello
Strategic Default in the International Coffee Market
This article studies strategic default on forward sale contracts in the international coffee market. To test for strategic default, we construct contract-specific measures of unanticipated changes in market conditions by comparing spot prices at maturity with the relevant futures prices at the contr...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
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2019
Mauro Boffa, Marion Jansen, Olga Solleder
Do we need deeper trade agreements for GVCs or just a BIT?
The paper investigates two policies geared towards stimulating and shaping global value chains (GVCs), namely deep regional trade agreements (DRTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs). In an augmented gravity model, we test the impact of both policies on a variety of trade in value added indic...
Trade and FDI
Services
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2019
Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman, Marion Jansen, Philip Schleifer, Olga Solleder, Regina Taimasova, Joseph Wozniak
Institutional design of voluntary sustainability standards systems: Evidence from a new database
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have become a significant element of the governance of international trade and production. Even though VSS are not mandatory (required by law), in practice they are often necessary for producers to participate in global value chains. Finally, VSS are often co...
Trade and FDI
Sustainability standards
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2019
Karishma Banga, Neil Balchin
Linking Southern Africa into South Africa’s global value chains
This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competitiveness. The study identifies ‘lead products’...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2019
Ismail Doga Karatepe, Christoph Scherrer
Collective Action as a Prerequisite for Economic and Social Upgrading in Agricultural Production Networks
This article highlights the importance of collective action and the role of the state in upgrading the social and economic conditions of farmworkers and smallholders. It is argued that economic upgrading does not automatically translate into social upgrading for workers and small producers and explo...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
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2019
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Erasmus Kersting
Which boats are lifted by a foreign tide? Direct and indirect wage effects of foreign ownership
The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it represents a channel through which international convergence in standards of living may be achieved. One important effect of FDI is its impact on wages, both within the ta...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
Social and working conditions
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2019
Emily Blanchard
Trade wars in the global value chain era
The nature of global commerce has changed dramatically over the past 40 years, with the meteoric rise of global value chain trade. This column, taken from a recent Vox eBook, builds on insights from recent research to identify three critical dimensions of global value chain trade that promise to mak...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Inga Heiland, Andreas Moxnes, Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe, Yuan Zi
Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks
This paper examines the structure of the shipping network and its implications on global trade and welfare. Using novel data on the movements of container ships, we calculate optimal travel routes. We then estimate the impact of a shock to the network on global trade by means of a natural experiment...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Davin Chor
Modeling global value chains: approaches and insights from economics
In recent years, the emergence of global value chains in how firms organize their production strategies has drawn the attention of economists, particularly those in the field of international trade. This has spawned a growing body of applied theoretical work to capture the fragmentation of productio...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Pamina Koenig, Sandra Poncet
Social responsibility scandals and trade
This paper studies the effect of social responsibility scandals on the imports of consumer products, by focusing on an event which generated massive consumer mobilization against neglecting firms, namely the collapse of the Rana Plaza building affecting the textile industry in Bangladesh. We investi...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Pamina Koenig and Sandra Poncet
Reputation and (un)fair trade: Effects on French importers from the Rana Plaza collapse
This paper analyzes the effects of a major reputational shock affecting textile importers fromBangladesh. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in April 2013 generated a surge of activismand media coverage specifically targeting the firms that sourced from the factories affected bythe disaster. Us...
Trade and FDI
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Maria-Therese Gustafsson; Martin Scurrah
Strengthening subnational institutions for sustainable development in resource-rich states: Decentralized land-use planning in Peru
Weak institutions have been identified as a principal cause of the poor developmental outcomes of many resource-rich states. Research has largely focused on national-level institutions and governance, whereas their subnational equivalents remain understudied. Subnational governments, partially empow...
Mining
Latin America
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2019
Maria-Therese Gustafsson; Martin Scurrah
Unpacking the extractivist state: The role of weak state agencies in promoting institutional change in Peru
When a resource boom has begun it is often challenging to develop institutions for governing natural resources in an inclusive and sustainable manner. Whereas existing studies on resource-rich states have focused on political elites or social mobilization for explaining attempts to strengthen such i...
Mining
Latin America
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2019
Asmita Parshotam, Javier Revilla Diez
Economic Growth Corridors Through a Value-Chain Lens: The Case of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor in Tanzania
Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT) is a role-model economic growth corridor (EGC). It aims at easing the incorporation of smallholder farmers into global and regional value chains through partnerships with larger agricultural companies. EGCs in general and SAGCOT in particul...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
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2019
Rachel D. Garrett et al.
Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments
Zero-deforestation commitments are a type of voluntary sustainability initiative that companies adopt to signal their intention to reduce or eliminate deforestation associated with commodities that they produce, trade, and/or sell. Because each company defines its own zero-deforestation commitment g...
Agriculture and food
Environment and climate change
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2019
Antonio Andreoni, Ha-Joon Chang
The political economy of industrial policy: Structural interdependencies, policy alignment and conflict management
Industrial policy is back in the mainstream debates. The paper provides a long-term analytical perspective of the industrial policy debate, and it critically assesses the current mainstream phase of the debate in light of three fundamental theoretical insights that developed along several decades of...
Trade and FDI
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2019
Luc Fransen, Ans Kolk, and Miguel Rivera-Santos
The multiplicity of international corporate social responsibility standards
This paper aims to examine the multiplicity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards, explaining its nature, dynamics and implications for multinational enterprises (MNEs) and international business (IB), especially in the context of CSR and global value chain (GVC) governance. This analys...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2019
Miaojie Yu
China’s manufacturing value chain ascent to date
This chapter utilizes total factor productivity (TFP) to measure the performance of large Chinese firms in 2001–2008. The upgrading of China’s manufacturing value chain that has resulted from integration with world markets has rich policy implications. The chapter describes the performance of th...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
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2019
Ben Shepherd
Mega-regional trade agreements and Asia: An application of structural gravity to goods, services, and value chains
We use a flexible estimation and simulation platform built on the standard structural gravity model to analyze the trade and welfare implications of mega-regional trade agreements for Asian countries. Our counterfactuals suggest that all current mega-regional scenarios have the potential to generate...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
Social and working conditions
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2019
Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Emmanuel Buadi Mensah
The Extent of GVC Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper exploits information from two different datasets to provide a novel and multi-dimensional picture of the engagement of all sub-Saharan African countries in global value chains (GVCs). It documents in detail the nature of the underlying data and the way it is used to construct several indi...
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
Sustainability standards
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2019
Sherwat E. Ibrahim
Sustainability in the Globalization Era
The topics of globalization and sustainability are very much intertwined. Globalization plays an important role in the redistribution of resources, thereby bringing significant sustainability implications to the involved countries. Each topic on its own is complex to study, and when combined this ad...
2018
Thomas Farole, Claire Hollweg and Deborah Winkler
Trade in Global Value Chains: An Assessment of Labor Market Implications
The paper is structured in six further sections following this introduction. Section two develops a conceptual framework, and reviews the literature on the relationship between trade integration and labor market outcomes. Section three outlines the empirical framework and data used in the analysis. ...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
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2018
Marcel P. Timmer, Sébastien Miroudot and Gaaitzen J. de Vries
Functional specialisation in trade
Production processes are fragmenting across borders with countries trading tasks rather than products. Export statistics based on value added reveal a process of vertical specialisation. Yet, what do countries do when exporting? In this article, we provide novel evidence on functional specialisation...
Trade and FDI
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2018
Laurie S.M. Reijnders and Gaaitzen J. de Vries
Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
This paper documents the growing share of non-routine jobs in the labor force of thirty-seven advanced and emerging countries over the period 1999–2007. To examine the role of offshoring and technological change in driving this labor market development, we develop a task-based model of production ...
Trade and FDI
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2018
Jörg H. Grimm, Joerg S. Hofstetter, Joseph Sarkis
Interrelationships amongst factors for sub-supplier corporate sustainability standards compliance: An exploratory field study
Sub-supplier compliance with a focal firm's corporate sustainability standards (CSS) is increasingly recognized as an important dimension of sustainable supply chain management. This paper draws on recent sub-supplier management studies and their critical success factors (CSFs) to investigate the in...
Sustainability standards
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2018
Davin Chor, Pol Antràs
On the measurement of upstreamness and downstreamness in global value chains
This paper offers four contributions to the empirical literature on global value chains (GVCs). First, we provide a succinct overview of several measures developed to capture the upstreamness or downstreamness of industries and countries in GVCs. Second, we employ data from the World Input-Output Da...
Trade and FDI
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2018
Michael Brüntrup, Fabian Schwarz, Thomas Absmayr, Jonas Dylla, Franziska Eckhard, Kerstin Remke, and Konrad Sternisko
Nucleus-outgrower schemes as an alternative to traditional smallholder agriculture in Tanzania – strengths, weaknesses and policy requirements
The public debate about the right type of agriculture for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) often constructs a dichotomy between smallholders and large-scale agriculture. This over-simplification ignores some important intermediary forms for organising agriculture, including nucleus-outgrower schemes (NOSs)....
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2018
Carlo Pietrobelli, Anabel Marin, Jocelyn Olivari
Innovation in mining value chains: New evidence from Latin America
The paper investigates new opportunities for innovation and linkages associated to mining activities in Brazil, Chile and Peru. Three types of opportunities were researched: demand side, supply side and local specificities. The last source of opportunities is key for natural resource related activit...
Trade and FDI
Mining
Latin America
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2018
Jorge Katz, Carlo Pietrobelli
Natural resource based growth, global value chains and domestic capabilities in the mining industry
Received theory of production is not very useful if we try to understand what the ‘sources’ of growth are when we deal with natural resource-based sectors of economic activity. In these industries, a complex set of interactions and co-evolution prevails between firms producing the commodity and ...
Mining
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
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2018
Xiaolan Fu, Jun Hou, and Xiaohui Liu
Unpacking the Relationship between Outward Direct Investment and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Chinese firms
This study investigates the impact of outward direct investment (ODI) by Chinese MNEs on innovation performance and the conditions under which such an impact is moderated, based on a sample of Chinese firms. The empirical evidence suggests that undertaking ODI leads to an increase in the innovation ...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
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2018
Dennis Davis, Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between f...
Trade and FDI
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2018
Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris
Standards, regulation and sustainable development in a global value chain driven world
Regulations and standards have become an increasingly important factor affecting the capacity of producers to participate in global markets. Directly and indirectly, they not only determine the terms of market-entry but also affect the extent to which different producers are able to position themsel...
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
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2018
Cornelia Staritz, Susan Newman, Bernhard Tröster, Leonhard Plank
Financialization and Global Commodity Chains: Distributional Implications for Cotton in Sub-Saharan Africa
Restructuring of global and local markets has led to an increased influence of commodity derivatives markets on commodity price setting. This has critical implications for price risks experienced by actors along commodity chains. Commodity derivatives markets have undergone significant changes that ...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
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2018
Philipp Herkenhoff, Sebastian Krautheim
The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void
In recent decades, a large and increasing number of leading firms in a diverse set of industries have faced allegations of ‘unethical’ practices along their international value chains. In many cases this has triggered consumer boycotts and NGO campaigns, introducing a new link between upstream (...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2018
Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Adnan Seric
Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains: Deeds Not Words
The disconnect between the lofty aspirations of firms claiming Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and their shortcomings in practice have caused some observers to question its usefulness. The fallout from events like the Rana Plaza catastrophe has highlighted some of these shortcomings—namely, ...
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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2018
Philipp Harms, Jakob Schwab
Like it or not? How the economic and institutional environment shapes individual attitudes towards multinational enterprises
This paper analyses the determinants of people's attitudes towards foreign direct investment (FDI) using a survey‐based data set that covers a wide range of rich and poor countries. We find that both individual socioeconomic characteristics and macroeconomic and institutional factors shape agents...
Trade and FDI
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2018
Svenja Schöneich
Ambigüedades del Petróleo – Cambios de percepción de riesgo al nivel local por la Reforma Energética Mexicana
Este artículo muestra el ejemplo de la comunidad campesina Emiliano Zapata, afectada durante varias décadas por actividades de extracción de hidrocarburos, y cómo entró en un estado de “incertidumbre tóxica” (Auyero y Swistun 2008) debido a las condiciones del cambio político de la extrac...
Mining
Environment and climate change
Latin America
⌵
2018
Nina Engwicht; Janpeter Schilling; Christina Saulich
A local to global perspective on resource governance and conflict
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue ‘A Local to Global Perspective on Resource Governance and Conflict’. It advances the debate on natural resource governance and conflict by bringing together three different strands of literature with the aim of developing a local to glo...
Environment and climate change
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2018
Christina Saulich; Siegmar Schmidt
Das Konfliktpotential großer Rohstoffvorkommen in Mosambik
Current protests and acts of violence have sparked a debate on a potential resource curse in Mozambique. This paper analyses the role of resource abundance in recent societal conflicts in Mozambique. The strand of literature on resources and conflicts sheds no light on the underlying structural sour...
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
⌵
2018
Melanie Müller
Menschenrechtliche Verantwortung beim Abbau von metallischen Rohstoffen am Beispiel von Kupfer
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, wie deutsche Unternehmen im Kupferbereich über die Herkunft ihrer Rohstoffe sowie über ihre Menschenrechtsstandards berichten. Die Studie geht dabei in fünf Schritten vor: 1. Einführung in die Thematik der Unternehmensverantwortung in globalen Lieferketten; 2. ...
Mining
⌵
2018
Günther Maihold
Colombia’s Peace and Venezuela’s Turmoil. An Emerging Regional Crisis Landscape in South America
Despite concerted political efforts to isolate the Colombian peace process from Venezuela’s internal unrest, the signs suggest coalescence and tectonic strife in the region. There are justified concerns that the increasingly interconnected constellation of precarious peace in Colombia and growing ...
Social and working conditions
Latin America
⌵
2018
Ari Van Assche, Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Functional upgrading in China’s export processing sector
Functional upgrading occurs when a firm acquires more sophisticated functions within an existing value chain. In this paper, we analyze if there is evidence of this type of upgrading in China's export processing regime by investigating dynamics in the relative prevalence of Import & Assembly (IA...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2018
Andrea Andrenelli, Charles Cadestin, Koen De Backer, Sébastien Miroudot, Davide Rigoi, Ming Ye
Multinational production and trade in services
Using the OECD analytical AMNE database, this paper provides new evidence on the services activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and discusses the relationship between cross-border trade in services and the production of services through foreign affiliates (“mode 3” trade in services in ...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Services
⌵
2018
Bo Meng, Glen P. Peters, Zhi Wang, Meng Li
Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in value-added and embodied emissions in trade. This allows both value-added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various routes in global value chains. By...
Environment and climate change
⌵
2018
Louise Curran, Khalid Nadvi, Liam Campling
The influence of tariff regimes on global production networks (GPNs)
Despite the recognition that trade policy—in particular, tariff regimes and rules of origin—can affect the geography of production, much GPN analyses pay scant attention to the tariff context of the sector studied. This paper proposes an analytical framework to more effectively integrate these r...
Agriculture and food
EU / Western Europe
Energy
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2018
Christoph Scherrer
Labour surplus is here to stay: why ‘decent work for all’ will remain elusive
In 2015, the United Nations agreed to pursue the Sustainable Development Goal #8 ‘To promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all’. The paper argues that this goal will not be achieved. The abundance of persons offering their ...
Social and working conditions
⌵
2018
Quanrun Chen, Kunfu Zhu, Peng Liu, Xiangyin Chen, Kailan Tian, Lianling Yang, Cuihong Yang
Distinguishing China’s processing trade in the world input-output table and quantifying its effects
Distinguishing processing trade is crucial to national input-output table-based research on China's international trade. This paper further investigates the importance of distinguishing China's processing trade in multicountry input-output table-based studies. We focus on the bias in China's bilater...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Services
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2018
Markus Krajewski
State duty to protect and corporate responsibility for human rights in global supply chains
The responsibility of transnational corporations for human rights violations in global supply chains continue to be of public interest: Fires in textile factories in Pakistan, environmental destructions due to oil production or worst forms of child labour in mines which produce minerals for electron...
Social and working conditions
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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Agriculture and food
⌵
2018
Yuan Zi
Trade costs, global value chains and economic development
This paper develops a model to study the impact of trade costs on developing countries’ industrialization when sequential production is networked in global value chains (GVCs). In a two-country setting, a decrease in trade costs of intermediates is associated with South joining and moving up the v...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2018
Sophie Hatte, Pamina Koenig
The Geography of NGO Activism against Multinational Corporations
To what extent do Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) monitor global value chains? While NGOs regularly denounce the behavior of multinational corporations throughout the world, their motivations for choosing campaign targets remain largely unknown. Using a new dataset on activists’ campaigns to...
Trade and FDI
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2018
Asmita Parshotam
Cultivating Smallholder Inclusion in Southern Africa’s Macadamia Nut Value Chains
This paper examines the potential for developing a macadamia nut value chain within Southern Africa, while also exploring the potential for incorporating smallholder producers into the macadamia nut industry. Using the country case studies of South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi, the paper examines t...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2018
Philip Schleifer
Varieties of multi-stakeholder governance: selecting legitimation strategies in transnational sustainability politics
Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) are often referred to as the ‘gold standard’ of private governance. However, existing MSIs vary strongly in their institutional designs and the ways in which they use inclusiveness, procedural fairness and, expert-based strategies to create legitimacy for the...
Sustainability standards
⌵
2017
Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman, Marion Jansen Philip Schleifer, Olga Solleder, Regina Taimasova and Joseph Wozniak
Suppliers’ access to voluntary sustainability standards
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) have long become a usual attribute of international production and trade. Despite the fact that VSS are not legally binding, in order to be a part of global value chains, they have become de facto mandatory, and non-compliance may lead to exclusion of produce...
Sustainability standards
⌵
2017
Antràs, Pol, Teresa C. Fort, Felix Tintelnot
The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions natur...
Trade and FDI
Services
⌵
2017
Altenburg Tilman and Dani Rodrik
Green industrial policy: Accelerating structural change towards wealthy green economies
The Chapter discusses the conceptual foundations of green industrial policy. Altenburg and Rodrik explain why looking through the lens of industrial policy provides important insights for a green transformation. They summarize lessons learned from decades of experimentation with, and research on, in...
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
⌵
2017
Harry K. Hoffmann, Klas Sander, Michael Brüntrup, and Stefan Sieber
Applying the Water-Energy-Food Nexus to the Charcoal Value Chain
Globally, natural resources are increasingly under pressure, especially due to population growth, economic growth and transformation as well as climate change. As a result, the water, energy, and food (WEF) nexus approach has emerged to understand interdependencies and commonly manage resources with...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Environment and climate change
⌵
2017
Carlo Pietrobelli, Cornelia Staritz
Upgrading, Interactive Learning, and Innovation Systems in Value Chain Interventions
Value chain interventions are increasingly used by donors in the context of private sector development. The paper develops a typology of such interventions, and presents the case of one multilateral lending institution – the Inter-American Development Bank. It argues that interventions risk transf...
Trade and FDI
Regions
⌵
2017
Jungmichel, Norbert; Christina Schampel, Daniel Weiß
Atlas on Environmental Impacts: Supply Chains
Identifying critical sustainability topics and areas of action in the supply chain represents a first important milestone for companies in sustainable supply chain management. The focus is important to be able to use the limited human and financial resources as effectively and efficiently as possibl...
Environment and climate change
⌵
2017
Philipp Harms, Pierre-Guillaume Méon
Good and useless FDI: The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and “greenfield” investment. A simple model underlines that, unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do ...
Trade and FDI
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2017
Kunal Sen
What Explains the Job Creating Potential of Industrialisation in the Developing World?
This paper examines why job creation in the manufacturing sector has differed widely across developing countries, using a modified Lewis model that captures the scale, composition and labour intensity effects of industrialisation on job creation. We show that while the scale effect has been mostly p...
Manufacturing
Social and working conditions
⌵
2017
Melanie Müller, Bettina Engels, and Kristina Dietz
Ausgebaggert: Weltweite Proteste gegen den Bergbau
Editorial: In der Aktuellen Analyse diskutiert Ulrich Frey die Chancen und Grenzen ziviler Konfliktbearbeitung gegen den Terrorismus. Der Beitrag beschreibt zunächst die Grundzüge zivilgesellschaftlicher Konfliktbearbeitung und zivilgesellschaftlicher Interventionen. Er setzt sich dann mit den ...
Mining
Environment and climate change
Social and working conditions
⌵
2017
Melanie Müller
Deutsche Kupferimporte: Menschenrechtsverletzungen, Unternehmensverantwortung und Transparenz entlang der Lieferkette
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, wie deutsche Unternehmen im Kupferbereich über die Herkunft ihrer Rohstoffe sowie über ihre Menschenrechtsstandards berichten. Die Studie geht dabei in fünf Schritten vor: Das erste Kapitel führt in die Thematik der Unternehmensverantwortung in globalen Lieferk...
Mining
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2017
Wen Chen, Bart Los, Philip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mark Thissen, Frank van Oort
The continental divide? Economic exposure to Brexit in regions and countries on both sides of The Channel
In this paper we employ an extension of the World Input‐Output Database (WIOD) with regional detail for EU countries to study the degree to which EU regions and countries are exposed to negative trade‐related consequences of Brexit. We develop an index of this exposure, which incorporates all ef...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2017
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang
WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms
We examine the effects of trade liberalization in China on the evolution of markups and productivity of manufacturing firms. Although these dimensions of performance cannot be separately identified when firm output is measured by revenue, detailed price deflators make it possible to estimate the ave...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2017
Matthew Alford, Stephanie Barrientos, Margareet Visser
Multi-scalar Labour Agency in Global Production Networks: Contestation and Crisis in the South African Fruit Sector
Integration into global production networks poses significant challenges, and also opens up opportunities, for labour agency. Governance by lead firms affects working conditions and can drive precarious employment; this interacts with and can constrain national labour legislation covering labour rig...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2017
Axel Berger, Dominique Bruhn
Vietnam’s Preferential Trade Agreements: Implications for GVC Participation and Upgrading
Vietnam is a lower-middle–income country and, like many of its peers, faces the challenge of upgrading to higher value-added tasks in global value chains (GVCs). Participation and upgrading are not an arbitrary policy objective: both may be of decisive importance for Vietnam’s future economic de...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
Social and working conditions
⌵
2017
Ahmad, N, Primi A.
From domestic to regional to global: Factory Africa and factory Latin America?
This chapter provides a brief overview of upgrading and GVC terminologies, providing insights on interpretability pitfalls. It offers evidence of the complementarities between strong domestic supply chains and imports and then demonstrates the importance of strong regional value chains for integrati...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
⌵
2017
Holger Görg, Erasmus Kersting
Vertical integration and supplier finance
This paper studies access to finance by suppliers that are linked to a multinational enterprise. The theoretical framework consists of a property rights model featuring suppliers that are either vertically integrated or sell to the multinational at arm's length, which in turn affects the availabilit...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2017
Bettina Rudloff, Evita Schmieg
European chicken drumsticks for West Africa – a threat to local markets?
Trade in agricultural products is of considerable importance to the economies of most African countries. Imports often play an important role in feeding a growing population. At the same time, they exert competitive pressure on internal production and therefore also put food security at risk. Here, ...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
EU / Western Europe
⌵
2017
Emily Blanchard
Renegotiating NAFTA: The role of global supply chains
The Trump administration has been outspoken in its criticism of NAFTA, which the president has called “the worst deal ever made”. This column, taken from a recent Vox eBook, argues that reversing the current NAFTA policy environment would not simply wind back the clock to the pre-agreement econo...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2017
Aksel Erbahar, Yuan Zi
Cascading trade protection: Evidence from the US
In a world with increasingly integrated global supply chains, trade policy targeting upstream products has unintended consequences on their downstream industries. In this paper, we examine whether protection granted to intermediate manufacturers leads to petition for protection by their downstream u...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2017
Ximena Rueda, Rachael D. Garrett, and Eric F. Lambin
Corporate investments in supply chain sustainability: Selecting instruments in the agri-food industry
Private investments to address environmental issues are perceived as a powerful engine of sustainability. For the agri-food sector, multiple instruments have been developed to green supply chains. Yet little is known about the underlying process and conditions under which green sourcing concerns lea...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Environment and climate change
⌵
2016
Taglioni, D.; Winkler, D.
Making Global Value Chains Work for Development
Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus beco...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2016
Thomas Farole
Do global value chains create jobs?
Global value chains (GVCs) describe the cross-national activities and inputs required to bring a product or service to the market. While they can boost exports and productivity, the resulting labor market impacts vary significantly across developing countries. Some experience large-scale manufacturi...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
⌵
2016
Fiorini Matteo, Schleifer Philip, Sollerder Olga, Tainasova Regina, Jansen Marion, Wozniak Joseph, Hoekman Bernard
Social and environmental standards: Contributing to more sustainable value chains
Environment and climate change
Sustainability standards
⌵
2016
Mi Dai, Madhura Maitra, Miaojie Yu
Unexceptional exporter performance in China? The role of processing trade
The firm level trade literature finds that exporters are exceptional performers for a wide range of countries and measures. Paradoxically, the one documented exception is the world's largest exporter, China. We show that this puzzling finding is entirely driven by firms that engage only in export pr...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2016
Sebastian Krautheim, Thierry Verdier
Offshoring with endogenous NGO activism
The process of globalization is characterized by an impressive growth of global value chains, as well as the proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interacting with multinational firms. This paper presents a model of offshoring and NGO–firm interactions in which offshoring to a low...
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2016
Sebastian Krautheim, Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
Wages and International Tax Competition
We introduce wage bargaining and private information into a model of profit shifting and tax competition between a large and a small country. Shifting profits to the small country not only reduces a firm's tax bill but also creates private information on profitability, altering the wage bargaining i...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2016
KUNAL SEN, CHAITALI SINHA
The location choice of US foreign direct investment: how do institutions matter?
We look at the institutional determinants of both within- and across-country variations in US foreign direct investment (FDI) flows over time. The strength of our approach is that in contrast to the previous work that has focused on average FDI flows across countries, we are able to explain both the...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2016
Rajesh SN Raj, Kunal Sen
Moving out of the bottom of the economy? Constraints to firm transition in the Indian informal manufacturing sector
The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal sector. Very few family firms make the transition to larger firms employing non-family labour. In this paper, we examine the reasons for the low presence of firms employing non-family la...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
South Asia
⌵
2016
Günther Maihold
Intervention by Invitation? Shared Sovereignty in the Fight against Impunity in Guatemala
This article deals with the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a joint hybrid commission to investigate impunity in the context of illegal security networks and organized crime. It was set up as an external governance intervention through an agreement between the UN and ...
Social and working conditions
Latin America
⌵
2016
Xuemei Jiang, Quanrun Chen, Dabo Guan, Kunfu Zhu, Cuihong Yang
Revisiting the Global Net Carbon Dioxide Emission Transfers by International Trade: The Impact of Trade Heterogeneity of China
To revisit global net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions transfers by international trade for year 2007, this study employs a new world‐wide, multiregional input‐output (MRIO) table in which China's production is separated into domestic use, processing exports, and nonprocessing exports. The results...
Manufacturing
Services
East Asia and Pacific
Environment and climate change
⌵
2016
Kalina Manova, Zhihong Yu
How firms export: Processing vs. ordinary trade with financial frictions
The fragmentation of production across borders allowsfirms to make and exportfinal goods, or to perform only in-termediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine howfinancial frictionsaffect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade–implicitly...
Trade and FDI
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2016
Madlen Krone, Peter Dannenberg, Gilbert Nduru
The use of modern information and communication technologies in smallholder agriculture: Examples from Kenya and Tanzania
Through examining the example of commercial small-scale horticultural farmers in Mt. Kenya region and Mwanza region, this empirical study aims to provide an explanation for why different perspectives on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Global South exist. A mixed...
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2016
Andrea Lenschow, Jens Newig, Edward Challies
Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness – telecoupling – gives rise to specific sustainability challenges, which require new governance solutions. Moving beyond ‘scaling-...
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
Latin America
⌵
2015
Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria
The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenyan Rose Exports
This paper provides evidence on the importance of reputation in the context of the Kenyan rose export sector. A model of reputation and relational contracting is developed and tested. A seller's reputation is defined by buyer's beliefs about seller's reliability. We show that (i) due to lack of enfo...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2015
Sadaat Ali Yawar, Stefan Seuring
Management of Social Issues in Supply Chains: A Literature Review Exploring Social Issues, Actions and Performance Outcomes
The social dimension of sustainable develop- ment and its impact on supply chains have so far received less attention than the environmental dimension. The aim of the research is to explore the intersection between social issues, corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions and performance outcomes...
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2015
Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria
The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenyan Rose Exports
This paper provides evidence on the importance of reputation in the context of the Kenyan rose export sector. A model of reputation and relational contracting is developed and tested. A seller’s reputation is defined by buyer’s beliefs about seller’s reliability. We show that (i) due to lack o...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
⌵
2014
Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler
Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub-Saharan Africa: Local Spillovers and Competitiveness in Global Value Chains
Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus becom...
Agriculture and food
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2014
Daniele Giovannucci, Oliver von Hagen, Joseph Wozniak
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of Voluntary Sustainability Standards
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming a standard feature particularly for large and consumer-oriented firms. What started in the late 1960s as something closer to charity or philanthropy has evolved dramatically in recent years. Yet, as actualization of the CSR concept is increasingly ex...
Sustainability standards
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
⌵
2014
Kishore Gawande, Bernard Hoekman, Yue Cui
Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Crisis
The collapse in trade and the contraction of output that occurred during 2008–9 was comparable to, and in many countries more severe than, the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, it did not give rise to the rampant protectionism that followed the Great Crash. The idea that the rise in the frag...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2014
Bernard Hoekman
Supply Chains, Mega-Regionals and Multilateralism: A Road Map for the WTO
At the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Bali it was agreed to develop a work program to conclude the long-running Doha round. This report argues that any work program should recognize that goods and services are increasingly produced in international supply chains. Many of the policies impac...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2014
Cuihong Yang, Erik Dietzenbacher, Jiansuo Pei, Xikang Chen, Kunfu Zhu, Zhipeng Tang
Processing Trade Biases the Measurement of Vertical Specialisation in China
Vertical specialization (VS) is often measured by the import contents of the exports, using an input–output (I–O) framework. Half of China’s exports are processing exports, which largely depend on imported intermediate inputs and tie up upstream as well as downstream trade partners. Thus, one ...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Services
East Asia and Pacific
⌵
2013
Shujin Zhu and Xiaolan Fu
Drivers of Export Upgrading
This paper analyses the determinants of export upgrading using a cross-country panel dataset over the 1992–2006 period. The results suggest that the export sophistication of countries is enhanced by capital deepening, engagement in knowledge creation, transfers via investment in education and R&D ...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
Services
⌵
2013
Manfred Wiebelt, Clemens Breisinger, Olivier Ecker, Perrihan Al-Riffai, Richard Robertson, and Rainer Thiele
Compounding food and income insecurity in Yemen: Challenges from climate change
This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest that c...
Environment and climate change
The Middle East and North Africa
⌵
2013
William Milberg, Deborah Winkler
Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development
Trade and FDI
⌵
2013
Axel Berger, Matthias Busse, Peter Nunnenkamp, Martin Roy
Do trade and investment agreements lead to more FDI? Accounting for key provisions inside the black box
The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as “black boxes”, despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...
Services
⌵
2013
Peter Dannenberg, Gilbert M. Nduru
Practices in international value chains: the case of the Kenyan fruit and vegetable chain beyond the exclusion debate
The emerging role of private standards as new forms of regulation and co-ordination in international trade and production is discussed in various fields including economic geography. A prominent example is the impact of the European standard GlobalGAP (former EurepGap) in Kenyan export horticulture....
Agriculture and food
Sub-saharan Africa
⌵
2012
David Kaplan
South African mining equipment and specialist services: Technological capacity, export performance and policy
South Africa has developed a technologically sophisticated and globally competitive mining equipment and specialist services sector. The paper provides evidence for and measurement of technological competency and global competitiveness and a brief outline of why South Africa was successful in this r...
Trade and FDI
Sub-saharan Africa
Mining
Services
⌵
2012
Mike Morris, Raphael Kaplinsky, David Kaplan
“One thing leads to another”—Commodities, linkages and industrial development
With a particular focus on low income economies in SSA, this paper addresses the nature and determinants of linkages from the commodities sectors and challenges the received view that enclave development is an inherent characteristic of resource extraction, particularly in the hard and energy commod...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2012
Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Alex Winter-Nelson
Social Learning and Farm Technology in Ethiopia: Impacts by Technology, Network Type, and Poverty Status
Improved farm technologies in Ethiopia display high levels of promise and low rates of adoption. This article studies the impact of social networks on technology adoption focusing on social learning through networks based on physical proximity and those based on intentional relationships. Impacts by...
Agriculture and food
⌵
2012
Philipp Harms, Oliver Lorz, Dieter Urban
Offshoring along the production chain
In this paper, we analyze the offshoring decision of firms whose production process is characterized by a particular sequence of steps. International cost differences vary non‐monotonically along the production chain, and moving unfinished goods across borders incurs transport costs. We show that,...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2011
Xiaolan Fu
Processing Trade, FDI and the Exports of Indigenous Firms: Firm-Level Evidence from Technology-Intensive Industries in China
This study examines the impact of processing trade‐foreign direct investment (FDI) on the export competitiveness of indigenous firms using disaggregated firm‐level production data and product‐level trade data from China covering the 2000–07 period. The estimation results show that processing...
Trade and FDI
Manufacturing
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
⌵
2011
Andreas Stamm, Christian von Drachenfels
Value Chain Development: Approaches and activities by seven UN agencies and opportunities for interagency cooperation
Promoting value chain development is increasingly being recognized as a promising approach to address not only economic development, job creation and inclusive growth, but a wider range of social and environmental development issues. The paper outlines the different approaches and perspectives that ...
Trade and FDI
⌵
2008
Andreas Stamm
Agribusiness and poverty reduction: what can be learned from the value chain approach?
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by the Millennium Summit of 2000 commit the international community to a strategy of accelerated poverty reduction. The proportion of people living under conditions of extreme poverty should be reduced by half by the year 2015 (MDG 1). The MDGs are to...
Trade and FDI
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2006
Andrea Stamm, Christoph Jost, Constanze Kreiss, Katharina Meier, Mike Pfister, Philipp Schukat, Henning A. Speck
Strengthening value chains in Sri Lanka’s agribusiness: a way to reconcile competitiveness with socially inclusive growth?
Trade and FDI
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Laura Boudreau, Julia Cajal-Grossi, and Rocco Macchiavello
Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments
There is a consensus that global value chains have aided developing countries' growth. This essay highlights the governance complexities arising from participating in such chains, drawing from lessons we have learned conducting research in the coffee and garment supply chains. Market power of intern...
Trade and FDI
Social and working conditions
Corporate responsibility and lead firms
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Günther Maihold and Fabian Mühlhöfer
Supply Chain Instability Threatens Security of Supplies
The Covid pandemic has severely upset global supply chains. This disruption has now spread to many branches of industry, and consumers are starting to feel the impact. No short-term improvement is in sight, which has serious implications for manufacturing processes all over the world. To begin wit...
Trade and FDI
EU / Western Europe
Sustainability standards
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Antonio Andreoni, Keun Lee & Sofia Torreggiani
Global Value Chains, ‘In-Out-In’ Industrialization, and the Global Patterns of Sectoral Value Addition
Since the emergence and diffusion of regional and global value chains, production-chain development has always played a key role in shaping countries’ structural transformation. Over the years, the geographical breadth, length, and depth of these chains have changed significantly. Building on the ...