Volumes 31 - 40: Recent submissions
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Globalisation and Insecurity
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries There is a growing awareness across many sectors that small arms represent a serious risk to human and global security. Partly as a result of the growing awareness of the problem, the analytical appraisal of ... -
Conflict Prevention, Resolution and Management
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries The past few years have seen a plethora of initiatives announced to deal with conflict prevention, conflict reduction and conflict management. Addressing violent conflict is now seen as an integral aspect to the ... -
Africa's Global Impact
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries International attention was directed to several African conflicts during 2000. Most notable were the wars in Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and between Ethiopia and Eritrea. What became apparent ... -
Globalisation, Insecurity and Post?War Reconstruction
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/04/2001)Summaries This article examines, critically, the assumption thateconomic globalisation is a force for peace, security and broad?based economic prosperity in societies emerging from war. Cambodia's recent experiences ... -
Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development
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How Do We Define Value Chains and Production Networks?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries This article is intended to contribute to the process of building a set of tools that will help advance the debate on the shape and trajectory of global economic integration. The article uses a ‘Value?chain’ ... -
Beyond the Producer?driven/Buyer?driven Dichotomy
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries The Internet is still in the early stages of its development, but its impact on global value chains is already evident. While it may be premature to try to identify lasting changes on producer?driven and ... -
Governance in Global Value Chains
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries The concept of ‘governance’ is central to the global value chain approach. This article explains what it means and why it matters for development research and policy. The concept is used to refer to the inter?firm ... -
Value Chains
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries This article starts by reviewing what economists can learn from work on value chains by other social scientists, and then considers what economics may have to offer both in understanding value chains and in ... -
Value Chains and Trade Policy
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries Value?chain and traditional trade policy analysis are complementary: each throws light on areas overlooked by the other. Value?chain analysis helps to identify who gains from market imperfections and how the ... -
Gender, Flexibility and Global Value Chains
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries Gender is often overlooked in the analysis of global value chains. Analysis of value chains incorporates all aspects from design, through production to final distribution and consumption. These activities are ... -
Agro?Commodity Chains
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries This article combines the GCC and Convention Theory frameworks to compare the value chains for agro?commodities before and after the decade 1980–90. Crudely, this period was a watershed between producer?driven ... -
Who Gains from Product Rents as the Coffee Market Becomes More Differentiated?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries This article applies value?chain analysis to an agricultural ‘commodity’, which is in the process of significant change in final product markets. By focusing on the capacity of value?chain analysis to map ... -
Alternatives for Industrial Upgrading in Global Value Chains
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries This article addresses the challenges and limits for upgrading in the case of individual firms from developing countries. Their initial involvement in global value chains demand distinct sets of competencies ... -
Value Chains and the Business System
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries Garment firms are typical of the poor state of Kenyan industry. Production has declined and, with it, employment. New investment is minimal, so firms are producing inefficiently using outdated equipment. Many ... -
From What We Wear to What We Eat
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries In recent academic debates, upgrading has emerged as a key way for developing countries to meet the competitive challenges of globalisation and trade liberalisation. This article draws on global commodity chains ... -
Creating Value?chain Cooperation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2001)Summaries This article poses three questions: can value chain cooperation be constructed rather than simply reflected? How are the different modalities of governance, organization, coordination and power expressed in a ... -
Editorial: Environmental Governance in an Uncertain World
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New Directions in Natural Resource Management
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2001)Summaries The article offers theoretical insights from Actor?Network Theory (ANT) as to how natural resource management (NRM) perspectives might be enhanced. ANT asks us to abolish the conventional sociological practice ... -
Implications of Legal Pluralism for Natural Resource Management
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/2001)Summaries This article illustrates the implications of legal pluralism for our understanding of natural resource management and policies toward resource tenure, using the example of water rights. There is widespread ...
