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Power in global value chains [PDF]
Review of International Political Economy, 2019 Power has been a foundational concept in global value chain (GVC) research. Yet, in most GVC scholarship, power is not explicitly defined and is applied as a unitary concept, rather than as having multiple dimensions. Clarifying the concept of power has become particularly urgent in recent years as GVC research has proliferated beyond dyads of ...
Stefano Ponte +2 more
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The impact of global value chains embeddedness on the carbon emission efficiency of manufacturing firms [PDF]
Carbon Balance and ManagementBackground Against the backdrop of deep specialization within global value chains (GVCs), it is crucial to explore how firms’ participation in global production networks affects their carbon efficiency, a key factor in achieving green growth.
Yanli Shi, Sasa Yang
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Mapping global value chains at the product level [PDF]
EPJ Data ScienceValue chain data is crucial for navigating economic disruptions. Yet, despite its importance, we lack publicly available product-level value chain datasets, since resources such as the “World Input-Output Database”, “Inter-Country Input-Output Tables ...
Lea Karbevska, César A. Hidalgo
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Village Funds in Indonesia: Impacts on Sustainable Agricultural Development [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 This study examines the implementation of village funds allocated by the Indonesian government to boost agricultural growth in rural regions, with a focus on promoting sustainable farming practices among its 270.2 million populace.
Penggalih P M +4 more
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On the Geography of Global Value Chains [PDF]
Econometrica, 2020 This paper develops a multi‐stage general‐equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs) and studies the specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of production of a given stage in a GVC is not only a function of the marginal cost at which that stage can be produced
Antràs, Pol, De Gortari, Alonso
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An Experimental Pricing Framework for E-Commerce
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021 Characterizing the demand curve of products is important for pricing them optimally. However, in deriving empirical demand curves, econometricians have to contend with identification issues.
Puneet Vatsa, Wanglin Ma, Xiaoshi Zhou
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value chains (GVCs) in shaping international trade flows and multinational activity. On the empirical front, we begin reviewing several variants of the "macro approach" to measuring the relevance of global production sharing in the world economy, and we also offer a ...
Pol Antràs, Davin Chor
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Effects of sustainable agricultural practices on farm income and food security in northern Ghana
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022 The adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) has been recommended by many experts and international institutions to address food security and climate change problems. Global support for the Sustainable Development Goals has focused attention
Edinam Dope Setsoafia +2 more
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IMF Working Papers, 2019 This chapter focuses on the role of foreign investment and multinationals in the electric power industry. It explores the evolution of the organizational conduits for doing business abroad to understand why the electric holding company epitomized the multinational firm in the industry. The chapter focuses on the synthesis provided by William J. Hausman
Faezeh Raei +2 more
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Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022 Increasingly, rural households in developing countries are shopping for food online, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. In parallel, dietary guidelines worldwide recommend eating a balanced and healthy diet.
Wanglin Ma +3 more
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