Journal ArticleIndustrial and Corporate Change · September 26, 2023
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 supp ...
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Book · 2023
In recent decades, Global Value Chains (GVCs) have not only become widespread, but now account for more than two-thirds of international trade. In GVCs, raw materials, industrial parts and components, as well as services, cross borders several times and ar ...
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Chapter · September 17, 2022
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 leade ...
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Book · September 17, 2022
This book examines China’s new development policies, which seek to reposition China from export platform for a diverse array of low-cost consumer goods to technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufacturing, artificial ... ...
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Chapter · May 15, 2022
Border Management and Control--C. Lawson et al. The Outlook for Energy Integration--D. Wood. Making the Environment a Priority? Evidence from the USMCA--D. Stevens and M. Sanchez Ramirez. Emergency Management--J. Kayyem et al. ...
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Report · 2022
The report examines the European Union's experience in furthering the circular economy agenda to elicit lessons that can benefit countries within and beyond Europe’s borders. This is the World Bank’s first comprehensive report that provides an assessment o ...
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Chapter · 2022
Latin America’s participation in Global Value Chains (GVC) is heterogeneous. In particular, the Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay) have focused on supplying natural resources to international markets, specifi ...
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Report · 2021
Peru is the second largest producer and exporter of copper in the world. However, the country’s sector has weak background linkages and the emergence of innovative suppliers able to provide high-value products and services is still incipient. This article ...
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Report · 2021
Despite years of economic growth, the Chilean export basket remains heavily dependent on goods, with little diversification into services. This 12-month consulting engagement focused on identifying key sources of competitive advantages in services, determi ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
This chapter provides an overview of the key concepts and methodological tools used in GVC analysis. During the past decade, interest and use of the GVC framework have grown exponentially among academics, development practitioners, policymakers and a wide ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
The use of the global value chain (GVC) analytical framework has broadened over time from being a research agenda to becoming an active policy tool. The geographic fragmentation now allows countries to engage in international trade in varying industries wi ...
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Report · 2019
Industry 4.0 technologies are seen to offer an opportunity to break gender-bias in employment, primarily by reducing previous technical barriers to female entry into the workforce. This study unpacks whether increased technological intensity of processes i ...
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Report · 2019
This report first provides an overview of the offshore services GVC to present a clear understanding of the scope of the industry, how markets are structured and how changing distribution of demand and supply destinations alter structural dynamics in the c ...
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Chapter · 2018
By opening up access to higher-value markets, Global Value Chain (GVC) participation has given emerging economies in Asia and the Pacific an opportunity to diversify, drive employment and raise incomes (OECD, 2012b). At the same time, these connections to ...
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Report · 2018
Shrimp is the second-leading seafood species as measured by world trade, trailing only salmon. There has been a strong increase in recent production, with global output increasing from 6.5 million MT in 2006 to 8.3 million MT in 2015, a jump of nearly 30%. ...
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Report · 2018
This report uses the Global Value Chain (GVC) framework to examine Belize’s position in the global cocoa-chocolate industry and identify opportunities for local business to improve their position in the sector. While Belize is a relatively small player in ...
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Report · 2018
Tourism is a dynamic source of economic growth throughout the world. The industry’s direct effect to global GDP was higher than many other sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing, retail and financial services. The vitality of the industry is not con ...
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Report · 2018
Over the past decade, the offshore services industry has experienced tremendous expansion and has emerged as a dynamic global sector, growing at faster rates than exported goods. As a result, developing countries are no longer relegated to manufacturing an ...
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Report · 2018
Specialty coffee represents a high value and growing niche market based almost exclusively on one type of coffee bean, Arabica coffee. Producers of high value coffee are able to capture higher prices on the international market and overcome economies of sc ...
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Report · 2018
Bananas represent an important source of economic revenue and nutrition for millions around the globe. However, resent shifts in the organizational model of banana trade and the liberalization of key import markets is changing the industry. These changes a ...
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Report · 2018
While cruise tourism remains a small niche within the broader tourism industry—its 24 million passengers constitute just 2% of worldwide travelers—it is a critical economic activity in the Caribbean. More than two-thirds of the tourists in the region are c ...
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Scholarly Edition · December 31, 2017
Over the past two decades, Chile has successfully developed its wine industry, being the world’s fourth largest exporter in 2015 with mostly medium-quality wines. In addition to well known key factors such as climate and soil conditions, (foreign direct) i ...
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Report · 2017
This report uses the Duke Global Value Chain (GVCC) framework to examine Barbados’ position in the cruise tourism global value chain (GVC) and identify opportunities for small businesses within the sector. While cruise tourism remains a small niche within ...
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Report · 2017
The rise in demand for premium products in the alcoholic spirits industry is creating new opportunities for producing nations to increase their participation in the global market. Barbados, the birthplace of rum, is currently poised to capitalize on this s ...
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Report · July 29, 2016
The first edition of Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer was released five years ago (May 2011) in order to provide an overview of the key concepts and methodological tools used by Duke University’s Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness ( ...
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Report · July 27, 2016
The report is based on a desk-based review, drawing upon existing studies of global supply chains (GSCs) to examine their impacts and implications for the development of domestic firms, their contribution to productive transformation and structural change ...
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Report · January 29, 2016
This report analyses Peru’s participation in the high quality cotton textile and apparel global value chain. The textile and apparel sector is a key pillar of Peru’s manufacturing sector, while the high quality cotton has been cultivated for centuries in t ...
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Report · January 29, 2016
This report analyses Peru’s participation in the high quality cotton textile and apparel global value chain. The textile and apparel sector is a key pillar of Peru’s manufacturing sector, while the high quality cotton has been cultivated for centuries in t ...
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Report · January 29, 2016
The Duke GVC Center conducted a study, Opportunities for Upgrading in Peru, commissioned by the World Bank (2015) to support the growth and productivity agenda in Peru with a focus on three important industries for the country: table grapes, mining equipme ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
The following sections are included: Industry Overview Background Information on the Firm Description of the Value Chain Pre-production: Vineyard Preparation and Grape Production (Viticulture) Production: Wine-making (Viniculture) Post-production: Distribu ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
The following sections are included: Industry Overview Background Information on the Firm Description of the Value Chain RandD and Pre-orchard Establishment Cherry Production Packing, Cold Chain Management and Logistics Distribution, Marketing and Sales Se ...
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Scholarly Edition · January 8, 2014
This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major economic sectors: agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing and offshore ...
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Report · 2012
This paper uses the global value chain methodology to analyze Inter-American Development Bank Multilateral Investment Fund (IDB-MIF) initiatives in Latin America that aim to include high-value agriculture small producers in the national, regional and globa ...
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Report · 2012
The objective of this report is to inform IDB-MIF officers and management how global value chain interventions can be more effectively designed, monitored and evaluated to ensure sustainable inclusion of small- and medium-sized producers in high-value agri ...
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Report · 2012
The project provided technical assistance and helped establish market linkages for experienced small coffee producers in five Central American countries. This enabled their entry into a higher value specialty coffee value chain, and potentially prevented e ...
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Report · 2012
Fruit and vegetables producers in Huánuco, Peru formed a consortium to sell their organic produce in supermarkets in Lima. The project, implemented by Instituto de Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (IDMA), attained a high level of collaboration among producers. ...
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Report · 2012
Small producers, members of a large, established coffee and cocoa cooperative in Tingo María, Perú, upgraded to certified organic production of cocoa. Through this organization producers began exporting organic cocoa to Europe, Japan and the United States. ...
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Report · 2012
This project focused on incorporating micro- and small honey producers into the domestic (Honduras) and global (Nicaragua) value chains. In addition to making value chain coordination a key part of the project, a strong technical learning aspect was also ...
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Report · 2011
This report shows the shift of fruit and vegetable preparation from rural households to the urban kitchen, and highlights the new skills and global standards required of workers and suppliers in developing countries to meet the needs of global supermarkets ...
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Report · 2011
Developing countries around the world are competing to become the next Bangalore, but they need to take various steps to ensure their human capital can meet the exacting demands and professional certifications required by developed world clients. This repo ...
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Report · 2011
Global tourists are traveling further, faster and more frequently than ever before. This report indicates how developing countries can prepare their tourism workforce to provide the high levels of customer service expected by today’s sophisticated traveler ...
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Report · 2010
Este manual tiene por objeto informar a los equipos de investigación en América Latina acerca de una metodología que permite analizar casos de Desarrollo Económico Local (DEL). En este instructivo se ha incluido el marco tradicional de los estudios DEL y, ...
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Report · 2010
Despite the 2008-2009 economic crisis, countries across Latin America continue to grow rapidly, driven by commodity booms and the growth of mining, petroleum and forestry sectors. Combined with the need for massive scale infrastructure development across t ...
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The cocoa-chocolate global value chain (GVC) is a multi-million dollar industry that connects cocoa bean producers, often located in developing nations, with manufacturers and consumers of chocolate. The demand for chocolate has grown rapidly in the last d ...
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This book provides an analysis of the horticulture, tourism, and call center global value chains (GVCs) based on a survey of the literature and case studies carried out in Honduras (horticulture), Kenya (tourism), and Egypt (call centers). The studies show ...
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Small organic cocoa producers in the Dominican Republic improve their competitiveness by increasing cultivation productivity. ...
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This paper is a summary of five IDB-MIF projects on high-value agriculture value chains that aimed to include small- and medium-sized producers in high-value agriculture value chains. The objective of this paper is to provide a set of lessons learned to de ...
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The project focused on improving the volume and quality of stevia production in Paraguay to expand supply, upgrading into the higher extraction stage of its value chain, and ultimately raise small producers’ incomes. The project also contributed to formali ...
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This report was commissioned by OECD as a background paper for the annual OECD publication, “Perspectives of Development” 2013. This report examines the role of workforce development using the GVC methodology in four industries: apparel, fruit and vegetab ...
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