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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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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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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Book · January 1, 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 intelligence, electric v ...
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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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Journal ArticleTransnational Corporations · January 1, 2019
Costa Rica has sought to improve its position in the global economy by prioritizing export growth in two high-tech manufacturing industries led by foreign direct investment (FDI): electronics and medical devices. We use a global value chain (GVC) perspecti ...
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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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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
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
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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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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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 2011
This article analyses the offshore services industry using the global
value chain approach. This industry has grown at a rapid pace over the
last decade, driven principally by the search of businesses to reduce
costs by unbundling and offshoring corpora ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 1, 2011
This article analyses the offshore services industry using the global value chain approach. This industry has grown at a rapid pace over the last decade, driven principally by the search of businesses to reduce costs by unbundling and offshoring corporate ...
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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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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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