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Multidimensional Energy Poverty, Food Expenditure, and Dietary Diversity Among Rural Households

Food and Energy Security
This study examines the effects of multidimensional energy poverty on food expenditure, dietary diversity, and the consumption of key food groups among rural households in China.
Junpeng Li, Wanglin Ma
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Accounting for commodity carbon footprints at the sub-national level: A case study of soybean exports from Brazil to China

World Development Sustainability
Quantifying the carbon footprint of agricultural products is crucial for effective carbon mitigation and responsible sourcing, given that the food production system accounts for approximately one-third of global carbon emissions.
Yuning Gao, Tao Zhang, Shantong Li, David Cleary   +3 more
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Productivity Measurement in Global Value Chains [PDF]

International Productivity Monitor, 2017
Increasing fragmentation of production is posing new challenges to the measurement of productivity. Traditional approaches focus on firms, industries or countries as the unit of analysis. In this article we argue that studies of global value chains (GVCs)
Marcel Timmer
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Knowledge, Oligopoly and Labour in Global Value Chains

Global Labour Journal, 2020
The article explores knowledge in global value chains (GVCs) and its correspondence with the nature of employment in different GVC segments. It starts with the role of knowledge that is protected through intellectual property rights in creating ...
Dev Nathan
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The impact of global value chains embeddedness on the carbon emission efficiency of manufacturing firms

Carbon Balance and Management
Background 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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Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2009
This paper looks at the impacts of the restructuring of global value chains on skills, occupational identities, class position and class consciousness. The codification of tacit knowledge and standardisation of work processes are both preconditions for ...
Ursula Huws, Simone Dahlmann
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Symptoms and causes of poverty in a rural Vietnamese commune: Does ethnicity matter?

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2014
This study uses data from a sample survey of 200 households drawn from a mountainous commune in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region to measure and explain relative poverty.
Van Le, Michael Lyne, Nazmun Ratna, Peter Nuthall   +3 more
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New Trends in Building Global Value Chains

Российский внешнеэкономический вестник
Currently, the topic of globalization in economic relations and its impact on world trade has become a topic of debate: opinions about the end of globalization and the onset of “fragmentation” are increasingly heard.
Kuznetsova Galina V.
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Global Value Chains and Employment Growth in Asia

Asian Development Review, 2019
This paper considers the sources of employment demand in Asian economies. Using data from the World–Input Output Database, I examine the relative importance of domestic and foreign demand in generating employment.
Neil Foster-McGregor
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Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2018
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.
Dennis Davis, Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris   +2 more
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