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Organizing the Global Value Chain [PDF]

Econometrica, 2013
The authors develop a property-rights model of firm boundaries that permits an analysis of the optimal allocation of ownership rights in a setting where production is sequential in nature and contracts are incomplete. They begin in Section 2 by developing a benchmark model of firm behaviour that isolates the role of the degree of `downstreamness' of a ...
ANTRAS, Pol, CHOR, Davin
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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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Governance in Global Value Chains [PDF]

IDS Bulletin, 2001
Summaries The concept of ‘governance’ is central to the global value chain approach. This article explains what it means and why it matters for development research and policy. The concept is used to refer to the inter‐firm relationships and institutional mechanisms through which non‐market co‐ordination of activities in the chain takes place. This co‐
John Humphrey, Hubert Schmitz
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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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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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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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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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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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global value chain

, 2019
Rangkuman ini berisikan informasi mengenai global value chain pada industri rotan dan juga penjelasan tentang arti dan teori teori yang telah ...
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Gender relations in global agri-food value chains – a review

DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2014
This article reviews the research literature on gender relations in global agri-food value chains. The main focus is on the production side in countries of the Global South, with most examples from sub-Saharan Africa.
Schumacher, Kim Philip
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