Summary The Global Value Chains (GVC) literature intervenes in today's challenging
development context by focusing on the means by which developing-country industries can …

Tobacco farming has emerged as an important concern for tobacco control advocates.
Tobacco-growing countries face unique and important challenges to comprehensive …

This article evaluates the relevance of dependency theory for understanding contemporary
development challenges, especially in the light of changes in the global economy over the …

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the
organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional …

Contemporary globalization has been marked by significant shifts in the organization and
governance of global industries. In the 1970s and 1980s, one such shift was characterized …

Designed to break with state‐centric approaches to understanding economic development,
global commodity chain, global value chain (GVC), and global production network (GPN) …

Value chain upgrading interventions have emerged in recent years as a dominant approach
to rural development. In coffee value chains, upgrading opportunities are presented by the …

Over the last decade, the global value chain (GVC) approach, with its associated notions of
chain governance and firm upgrading, has proliferated as a mode of analysis and of …

Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links. Regional
Studies. Regional economic development has been long conceptualized as a non-linear …

The global value chain (GVC) analytic, as currently conceived in the literature on global
production, tracks 'value added'along commodity chains but does not interrogate where …