Global Wealth Chains

Author : Leonard Seabrooke,Duncan Wigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192568489

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Global Wealth Chains by Leonard Seabrooke,Duncan Wigan Pdf

The world economy operates around the production of value and the creation and protection of wealth. Firms and other actors use global value chains to make the most for the least cost, ideally also contributing to economic development. Firms and professionals use global wealth chains to create and protect wealth, strategically planning across multiple legal jurisdictions to control how assets are governed. The outcome of such planning often contributes to global inequality. While we know a great deal about value chains, we know much less about wealth chains. This volume explores how global wealth chains are articulated, issues of regulatory liability, and how social relationships between clients and service providers are important for governance issues. It explores how assets are governed across a range of sectors such as public utilities, food and alcohol, art, and pharmaceuticals, as well as in legal instruments like advance pricing agreements, tax treaties, regulatory standards, intellectual property, family trusts, and legal opinion. The book integrates insights from a range of disciplines including International Political Economy, Economic Geography, Sociology, Accounting, Management Studies, Anthropology, and Law to reveal how global wealth chains are used to govern assets in the world economy.

Author : Brigitte Unger,Lucia Rossel,Joras Ferwerda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198854722

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Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators by Brigitte Unger,Lucia Rossel,Joras Ferwerda Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators analyzes the impact of new international tax regulations on the scope and scale of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering. These are analyzed through an ecosystem framework in which, similar to a natural ecosystem, new tax regulations appear as heavy shocks to the tax ecosystem, to which the 'species' such as countries, corporations, and tax experts will react by looking for new loopholes and niches of survival. By analyzing the impact of tax reforms from different perspectives--a legal, political science, accounting, and economic one--one may derive an assessment of the reforms and policy recommendations for an improved international tax system. The ultimate goal is to combat fiscal fraud and empower regulators, in that line, this volume is intended for a broad audience that seeks to know more about the latest state of the art in the realm of taxation from a multidisciplinary perspective. The money involved amounts to billions in unpaid taxes that could be better used for stopping hunger, guaranteeing education, and safeguarding biodiversity, hence making this world a better one. Regulators can see this book as a guiding light of what has happened in the past forty years, and how the world has and will continue to change as a result of it. Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators is also a warning about new emerging tax loopholes, such as freeports or golden passports and visas, where residency can be bought in tax havens, even within the European Union. The main message is that inequality can and has to be reduced substantially and that this can be achieved through a well-working international tax system that eliminates secrecy, opaqueness, and tax havens.

Author : Palpacuer, Florence,Smith, Alistair
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447362142

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Rethinking Value Chains by Palpacuer, Florence,Smith, Alistair Pdf

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by international organisations, such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, but social and political backlash is mounting in a growing variety of forms. This ambitious volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to address the social and environmental imbalances of global production. Thinking creatively about how to reform the current economic system, this book will be essential reading for those interested in building sustainable alternatives at local, regional and global levels.

Author : Intan Suwandi
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677827

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Value Chains by Intan Suwandi Pdf

Award-winning book showcases case studies uncovering the exploitation of labor and class in the Global South Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy—Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx’s own theory of exploitation. Value Chains uncovers the concrete processes through which multinational corporations, located primarily in the Global North, capture value from the Global South. We are brought face to face with various state-of-the-art corporate strategies that enforce “economical” and “flexible” production, including labor management methods, aimed to reassert the imperial dominance of the North, while continuing the dependency of the Global South and polarizing the global economy. Case studies of Indonesian suppliers exemplify the growing burden borne by the workers of the Global South, whose labor creates the surplus value that enriches the capitalists of the North, as well as the secondary capitals of the South. Today, those who control the value chains and siphon off the profits are primarily financial interests with vast economic and political power—the power that must be broken if the global working class is to liberate itself. Suwandi’s book depicts in concrete detail the relations of unequal exchange that structure today’s world economy. This study, up-to-date and richly documented, puts labor and class back at the center of our understanding of the world capitalist system.

Author : Diane-Laure Arjaliès,Philip Grant,Iain Hardie,Donald MacKenzie,Ekaterina Svetlova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198802945

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Chains of Finance by Diane-Laure Arjaliès,Philip Grant,Iain Hardie,Donald MacKenzie,Ekaterina Svetlova Pdf

Investment management and the investment chain -- Chains of freedom: the investment chain inside the investment management firm -- Fund managers and their investors -- Quantitative asset managers and their chains -- Entangled trading: fund managers and dark pools -- Bringing society back into the investment chain responsible investing during the financial crisis -- Trapped in resistance: collective struggles through the investment chain -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: a brief roster of intermediaries

Author : Eric Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0911752676

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Global Wealth Power by Eric Savage Pdf

Author : Leonard Seabrooke,Lasse Folke Henriksen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107181878

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Professional Networks in Transnational Governance by Leonard Seabrooke,Lasse Folke Henriksen Pdf

This book provides an original framework to examine how professionals control transnational issues, commonly considered the concern of organizations.

Author : Mark Blyth,Lucio Baccaro,Jonas Pontusson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780197607855

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Diminishing Returns by Mark Blyth,Lucio Baccaro,Jonas Pontusson Pdf

"The Global Financial Crisis and the following period of 'secular stagnation' have raised questions about the state of modern economics and macroeconomics in particular. This has had repercussions for social sciences that deal with economic issues. In particular in the fields of International Political Economy (IPE) and Comparative Political Economy (CPE) there is rising interest in non-mainstream macroeconomic theories (Blyth and Matthijs 2017, Baccaro and Pontussen 2016). In CPE there is a recognition that the field has in the past decades increasingly shifted to institutional and microeconomic questions and disregarded Keynesian considerations of macroeconomic instability and problems of fallacies of composition (Schwartz and Tranoy 2019). The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of post-Keynesian economics (PKE) as a non-mainstream macroeconomic theory"--

Author : Nigar Hashimzade,Yuliya Epifantseva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317377085

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The Routledge Companion to Tax Avoidance Research by Nigar Hashimzade,Yuliya Epifantseva Pdf

An inherently interdisciplinary subject, tax avoidance has attracted growing interest of scholars in many fields. No longer limited to law and accounting, research increasingly has been conducted from other perspectives, such as anthropology, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and economic psychology. This was –recently stimulated by politicians, mass media, and the public focussing on tax avoidance after the global financial and economic crisis put a squeeze on private and public finances. New challenges were posed by changing definitions and controversies in the interpretation of tax avoidance concept, as well as a host of new rules and policies that need to be fully understood. This collection provides a comprehensive guide to students and academics on the subjects of tax avoidance from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring the areas of accounting, law, economics, psychology, and sociology. It covers global as well as regional issues, presents a discussion of the definition, legality, morality, and psychology of tax avoidance, and provides guidance on measurement of economic effect of tax avoidance activities. With a truly international selection of authors from the UK, North America, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Middle East, and continental Europe, with well-known experts and rising stars of the field, the contributors cover the entire terrain of this important topic. The Routledge Companion to Tax Avoidance Research is a ground-breaking attempt to bring together scholarly research in tax avoidance, offering rigorous academic analysis of an important and hotly debated issue in a structured and balanced way.

Author : Renu Agarwal,Christopher Bajada,Roy Green,Katrina Skellern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351847575

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The Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains by Renu Agarwal,Christopher Bajada,Roy Green,Katrina Skellern Pdf

This Companion provides a review of global value chains (GVCs) and the megatrends that are shaping them and will continue to reshape them in deep-set trajectories of change over the next few decades. Megatrends herald both challenges and opportunities. With the growing interest among business leaders and researchers in GVCs, this is a reference work which fills a gap in current literature by focusing on the new features of GVCs, including the shift of global purchasing power towards developing economies, the significance of emerging technologies and data analytics, the increasing tensions between globalisation and de-globalisation, and the role of micro-multinationals, start-up entrepreneurs, the public sector and middle markets in a fast-changing global economy. The early chapters are essentially intradisciplinary in character, with the first seeking to explore some historical aspects of GVCs. Subsequent chapters cover the theory and practice of operations and supply chain management, emerging supply chain technologies, and the impact of inter-firm collaboration across sectors and economies. The final chapters take a more interdisciplinary approach and examine topics at the interface of GVCs with the economy, society, culture and politics. This comprehensive handbook provides a timely analysis of leading-edge global megatrends and practices in one volume.

Author : Christine Zhenwei Qiang,Yan Liu,Victor Steenbergen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Deborah Kay Elms,Patrick Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9287038821

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Global Value Chains in a Changing World by Deborah Kay Elms,Patrick Low Pdf

A collection of papers by some of the world's leading specialists on global value chains (GVCs). It examines how GVCs have evolved and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world. The approach is multi-disciplinary, with contributions from economists, political scientists, supply chain management specialists, practitioners and policy-makers. Co-published with the Fung Global Institute and the Temasek

Author : Stephanie Barrientos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108600651

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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains by Stephanie Barrientos Pdf

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of contemporary retail has been driven by the commercialised production of many goods previously produced unpaid by women within the home. Sourcing is now largely undertaken through global value chains in low- or middle-income economies, using a 'cheap' feminised labour force to produce low-price goods. As women have been drawn into the labour force, households are increasingly dependent on the purchase of food and consumer goods, blurring the boundaries between paid and unpaid work. This book examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.

Author : Peter Lacy,Jakob Rutqvist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137530707

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Waste to Wealth by Peter Lacy,Jakob Rutqvist Pdf

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.

Author : William Milberg,Deborah Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107355224

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Outsourcing Economics by William Milberg,Deborah Winkler Pdf

Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and household - that mold the power asymmetries that influence the distribution of the gains from globalization. In this book, William Milberg and Deborah Winkler propose an institutional theory of trade and development starting with the growth of global value chains - international networks of production that have restructured the global economy and its governance over the past twenty-five years. They find that offshoring leads to greater economic insecurity in industrialized countries that lack institutions supporting workers. They also find that offshoring allows firms to reduce domestic investment and focus on finance and short-run stock movements.