Global Value Chains and Development: Redefining the Contours of 21st Century Capitalism, Paperback - Gary Gereffi

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EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divide...

Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an ...

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This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about justice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production utilizing the c...

Global value chains - Cristiana Ioana Serbanel

DescriptionThe interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over. When it comes to sustainab...

Is Capitalism Working? is a deeply relevant question today, especially to a generation coming of age in a world still experiencing aftershocks from...

All those who despair at the state of the world and its multiple problems will find in this book ambitious but reasonable proposals that will give ...

The author has researched the evolution of leadership and summarizes seven contemporary principles, 26 underlying leadership beliefs, and nine cruc...

This publication aims to facilitate the systematic integration of gender equality dimensions into value chain (VC) development programmes. It raise...

DescriptionCases of famine, governmental overreach, political abuse and neglect persist even in today's globalised world. Corporate malfeasance, di...

Sustainability can create greater efficiency and cost savings in the supply chain. Supply chains, which are more complex and global than ever befor...

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This short book makes a connection between recent 'tectonic shifts' in the world economy and the political problems currently confronted by western...

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Publisher: Lynne Rienner PublishersAuthor(s): Patti LondonoNumber of pages: 293Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 25Cover type: Paperbac...

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables...

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century. This book ex...

DescriptionFiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina...

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Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, a...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdIllustration(s): 600 color illus.; 1200 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 600Collection: The MIT PressPublication ...

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Leading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with 'scientific' materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics,...

Publisher: Lynne Rienner PublishersAuthor(s): Patti LondonoNumber of pages: 293Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 237 x 26Cover type: Hardback...

With love, humor, and brilliant insight, Ben-Aharon addresses some of the most critical questions of our age, ranging from artificial intelligence ...

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The U.S. economy faced the prospect of a serious recession even prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The afflictions that had deepened unde...

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Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

While the impact of rapid technological change is often discussed in relation to the Global North, this book explores its effects on the developmen...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 3 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white; 15 Tables, black and white; 28 Ill...

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