Global Value Chains In Latin America

Author : Pablo Pérez Akaki,Marisol Velázquez-Salazar,Gilma Sabina Lizama Gaitán
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031331039

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Global Value Chains in Latin America by Pablo Pérez Akaki,Marisol Velázquez-Salazar,Gilma Sabina Lizama Gaitán Pdf

​This book examines the governance and institutional dimensions of the global value chain (GVC) and the barriers of local firms to participate in chains. Focusing on Latin America, this collection analyzes agribusiness and agri-food chains in order to evaluate the common challenges in the production and trade of coffee, cocoa, maize, sugar, Tequila and Mezcal in Mexico and Central America. Additionally, there are studies of knowledge-intensive industries of aerospace and automotive. Addressing the need for sustainable economic development in developing countries from the study of value chains, this work presents a conceptual framework and empirical cases that highlight the impact of GVC in the Latin American region and will appeal to international business and international trade researchers.

Author : René Antonio Hernández,Jorge Mario Martínez Piva,Nanno Mulder
Publisher : UN
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214677820

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Global Value Chains and World Trade by René Antonio Hernández,Jorge Mario Martínez Piva,Nanno Mulder Pdf

"Selection of original papers presented at the international conference 'Latin America's Prospects for Upgrading in Global Value Chains,' held on 14-15 March 2012, at Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City"--Title page vers

Author : René Antonio Hernández,Jorge Mario Martínez Piva,Nanno Mulder
Publisher : UN
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89127992741

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Global Value Chains and World Trade by René Antonio Hernández,Jorge Mario Martínez Piva,Nanno Mulder Pdf

"Selection of original papers presented at the international conference 'Latin America's Prospects for Upgrading in Global Value Chains,' held on 14-15 March 2012, at Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City"--Title page vers

Author : Nadia Rocha,Michele Ruta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464818424

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Deep Trade Agreements by Nadia Rocha,Michele Ruta Pdf

Globally, greater integration in international trade and global value chains (GVCs) has been linked to increased GDP per capita and productivity. Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have displayed limited trade openness and weak integration into GVCs. Their trade is roughly one-third of GDP on average, compared with one-half in countries in Europe and Central Asia, as well as East Asia and the Pacific—and that share has not grown since 2000. Although the gaps between potential and actual GVC integration are the result of economic fundamentals—such as geography, market size, institutions, and factor endowments—policy choices matter as well. The region has untapped potential in trade and GVCs to grow in the wake of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Deep trade agreements are reciprocal agreements between countries that seek integration of goods, services, and factors’ markets, or deep integration. Drawing on new data and evidence, Deep Trade Agreements: Anchoring Global Value Chains in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that these agreements can drive policy reforms that can help the region overcome some of its disadvantageous fundamentals. Four areas of deep integration—trade facilitation, regulatory cooperation, services, and state support—are priorities to improve the participation of countries in the region in GVC: 1. Facilitating trade can reduce border delays and ease the challenges caused by the remoteness of some countries. 2. Improving regulatory cooperation can help create larger regional markets by reducing the costs of nontariff measures. 3. Opening the service economy can compensate for factor endowment scarcity and facilitate access to skills and technology. 4. Fostering competition and regulating state support and state-owned enterprises can improve the quality of economic institutions. These areas are increasingly important as global trade tensions persist and economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In these times of uncertainty and upheaval, the policy commitments in deep trade agreements can create a more stable institutional environment to promote the ability of countries to participate in GVCs and to reap the benefits of integration. This work is a product of the regional studies program sponsored by the Latin America and the Caribbean Chief Economist’s Office.

Author : Juan S. Blyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3319099922

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Synchronized Factories by Juan S. Blyde Pdf

Author : Juan S. Blyde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319099910

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Synchronized Factories by Juan S. Blyde Pdf

The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner involves 43 suppliers located in 135 locations around the globe. There are many examples like the Dreamliner, from the 451 parts that go into the iPod to the less technologically intensive but still widespread multi-country production of a Barbie doll. All this reflects significant changes in the way world production is being reorganized across national borders. That is, for many goods, production has become a multi-country process in which different stages are carried out in specialized plants in different parts of the world. Countries which specialize in different stages of the production process are thus linked by these global value chains. For developing countries, a clear opportunity from the continuous international fragmentation of production arises in the form of participating in activities that were virtually not opened to them in the past. Therefore, the international fragmentation of production provides opportunities for trade diversification, an issue that can be of particular importance for Latin America and the Caribbean as the region’s export base is in general highly concentrated in a few industries and particularly biased towards natural-resource intensive sectors. The aim is to identify whether there is policy space for implementing strategies that allow countries to improve their position in regional and global value chains.

Author : Osvaldo Rosales,Keiji Inoue,Nanno Mulder
Publisher : UN
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89122107279

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Rising Concentration in Asia-Latin American Value Chains by Osvaldo Rosales,Keiji Inoue,Nanno Mulder Pdf

Dynamic Asia has overtaken the European Union as Latin America and the Caribbean's second largest export market, after the United States. However, the region's exports to Asia remain concentrated in few commodities involved a small number of large firms. This book explores the present and future scope for the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in biregional trade and value chains and the measures that can be taken to make those chains more inclusive and sustainable. It encourages governments in Latin America to improve the business environment in order to encourage multinational firms to invest, upgrade and innovate in the region.

Author : Carlo Pietrobelli,Roberta Rabellotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1376416426

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Upgrading to Compete Global Value Chains, Clusters, and SMEs in Latin America by Carlo Pietrobelli,Roberta Rabellotti Pdf

Does enterprise participation in global markets ensure sustainable income growth? Policies have often been designed in the belief that this is true, but competitiveness and participation in international markets may take very different forms, and developing countries do not always benefit. This book presents a series of rich and original field studies from Latin America, conducted by the authors with the same consistent methodological approach, and represents a theory-generating exercise within clusters and economic development literature. The main question addressed is how Latin American small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may participate in global markets in ways that provide for sustainable income growth, the “high road” to competitiveness. In contrast, the “low road” is often typically followed by small firms from developing countries, which often compete by squeezing wages and revenues rather than by increasing productivity, salaries, and profits.

Author : Carlo Pietrobelli,Roberta Rabellotti
Publisher : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106018975653

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Upgrading to Compete by Carlo Pietrobelli,Roberta Rabellotti Pdf

Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers enhance or undermine local firms' upgrading and learning? Using original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America, Upgrading to Compete shows that both local and global dimensions matter at once.

Author : Daria Taglioni,Deborah Winkler
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801624

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Making Global Value Chains Work for Development by Daria Taglioni,Deborah Winkler Pdf

Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus become more competitive in agriculture, manufacturing and services. This is a paradigm shift from the 20th century when countries had to build the entire supply chain domestically to become competitive internationally. For policymakers, the focus is on boosting domestic value added and improving access to resources and technology while advancing development goals. However, participating in global value chains does not automatically improve living standards and social conditions in a country. This requires not only improving the quality and quantity of production factors and redressing market failures, but also engineering equitable distributions of opportunities and outcomes - including employment, wages, work conditions, economic rights, gender equality, economic security, and protecting the environment. The internationalization of production processes helps with very few of these development challenges. Following this perspective, Making Global Value Chains Work for Development offers a strategic framework, analytical tools, and policy options to address this challenge. The book conceptualizes GVCs and makes it easier for policymakers and practitioners to discuss them and their implications for development. It shows why GVCs require fresh thinking; it serves as a repository of analytical tools; and it proposes a strategic framework to guide policymakers in identifying the key objectives of GVC participation and in selecting suitable economic strategies to achieve them.

Author : Christine Zhenwei Qiang,Yan Liu,Victor Steenbergen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464816840

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An Investment Perspective on Global Value Chains by Christine Zhenwei Qiang,Yan Liu,Victor Steenbergen Pdf

This report investigates the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in helping developing countries participate in global value chains (GVCs). It combines the perspectives and strategies from three types of players: multinational corporations, domestic firms and governments. It aims to provide practical guidance for developing countries to develop strategies that use FDI to strengthen GVC participation and upgrading. The report has six main chapters: 1. FDI and GVCs. Assesses the trade-investment nexus and analyzes the effect of FDI in countries’ GVC participation and upgrading at the country level. 2. MNCs shape GVC development. Highlights MNCs' contribution to global economy and how their business strategies shape the evolution of GVCs. The chapter also compares MNCs' business strategies in terms of outsourcing and offshoring, risk mitigation and increasing market power across GVC archetypes. 3. Domestic firm perspectives on GVC participation. Looks at the various paths domestic firms can take to internationalize their production and trade. Investigates domestic firm characteristics that predict higher GVC participation, and the effect of GVC participation on firm performance. 4. Investment policy and promotion: what is in a government’s toolbox? Summarizes the various policy instruments governments have at their disposal to help attract MNCs to their country and facilitate GVC participation of domestic firms. 5. Integrating countries into GVCs. Draws on a range of case studies to illustrate how governments can develop coherent strategies and policy packages to integrate their countries into GVCs. 6. FDI and GVCs in the wake of COVID-19. Reflects the impact of COVID-19 on FDI and GVCs, the response from multinationals and suppliers, and the implications for GVC reconfiguration. In addition, there are seven case studies that offer more nuanced analysis on the GVC participation in selected countries and sectors: • Five qualitative case studies: Five countries have been selected that managed to use FDI to stimulate GVC participation using a range of approaches. By design, these five countries also cover five different GVC archetypes. These countries are: (1) Kenya (horticulture); (2) Dominican Republic (textiles); (3) Mauritius (tourism); (4) Malaysia (electronics); (5) China (software). • Two quantitative case studies: Rwanda, West-Bengal (India). These use a combination of firm- and transaction level datasets to study firm-level dynamics that explain the role of multinational and domestic firms across GVCs.

Author : Gary Gereffi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108471947

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Global Value Chains and Development by Gary Gereffi Pdf

Studies conceptual foundations of GVC analysis, twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', and detailed cases of emerging economies.

Author : Erika Majzlíková
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031560422

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Redefining Global Markets by Erika Majzlíková Pdf

Author : Víctor Ramiro Fernández,Gabriel Brondino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319921839

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Development in Latin America by Víctor Ramiro Fernández,Gabriel Brondino Pdf

This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century. In this time frame, the authors identify two approaches: structuralism (1950-1980) and neo-structuralism (1980-onwards). The contributors describe the transition in terms of economic theory and policy; the conceptualization of the State; and the consideration of space on regional and global scales. They argue that structuralism is still relevant for understanding the current problems of development if a careful and appropriate recovery and update of its main ideas and concepts is made in relation to the current context of globalization and internationalization of production and finance.

Author : Fernando Robles,Nila M. Wiese
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000846096

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Business in Latin America by Fernando Robles,Nila M. Wiese Pdf

Business in Latin America provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the business environment of this dynamic and challenging region. The book begins with an overview of the most important macroenvironments shaping the region’s opportunities and risks, while the second part focuses on the business strategies that respond to those opportunities and risks. Capturing the dynamism of this region, this new edition provides a thorough and nuanced understanding of the commonalities and differences within the multifaceted business environments of Latin America. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include: The sources of economic, political, and natural risks, including the impact of COVID-19 The endemic role of corruption in institutions, the economy, and society The region’s cultural and social diversity and resilience The role of technology and digitalization on corporate and marketing strategies The challenges of managing local and regional supply chains The book includes examples and cases from across the region on corporate strategies, marketing, entrepreneurship, leadership, human resource management, and social and environmental sustainability. An ideal resource for anyone considering a business venture in the region, the book will especially appeal to practitioners and students who have a particular interest in Latin America.