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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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