Law, Global Value Chains and Upgrading in the Mining Industry: A Case Study on Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-550
Author(s):  
Ndinawe Mtonga Ruppert ◽  
Kevin Sobel-Read ◽  
Blake Pepper
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Copper Mining ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Global Commerce ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
The Relationship

The increasingly interconnected nature of global commerce has caused dramatic structural transformation. Global value chains (GVCs) are crucial to understanding the resulting consequences, including the possibilities available today for a country's economic success. Law plays a central role. In this article, we explore GVC upgrading in Africa, focusing on the mining sector in Zambia. We outline three impediments to Zambia's upgrading capacity within the copper-mining GVC and conclude with three policy suggestions that could improve Zambia's position. By shedding light on the relationship between law, development and global value chains, the article provides beneficial insight to Zambia and across Africa.

Position in global value chains and wages in Central and Eastern European countries

2022 ◽  
pp. 095968012110537
Author(s):  
Sabina Szymczak ◽  
Aleksandra Parteka ◽  
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Final Demand ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Import Intensity

This paper examines the relationship between the relative position of industries in Global Value Chains (GVC) and wages in 10 Central and Eastern European countries. We combine GVC measures of global import intensity of production, upstreamness and the length of the value chain with micro-data on workers. We find that the wages of Central and Eastern European countries workers are higher when their industry is at the beginning of the chain or at the end than in the middle. Secondly, wage changes depend on the interplay between upstreamness and GVC intensity. In sectors close to final demand, greater production fragmentation is associated with lower wages.

Structure of International Service Trade in Global Value Chains: Forward and Backward Linkages of Russia’s Participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
K. S. Nefedov
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Generalized Least Squares ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Service Trade ◽  
International Service ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

Intensive globalization of production processes along with active internationalization of companies have created new opportunities for developing countries to participate in global value chains (GVC). Participation in GVCs makes it possible to analyze the contribution of individual industries to world trade at the level of countries and sectors.Aim. This paper aims to assess the growth of Russia’s participation in international service trade over the past years in a number of non-material sectors of the economy from the perspective of upgrading in GVCs and the associated positive dynamics in value adding processes.Objectives. The author examines the dynamics of Russia’s participation in service industries; analyzes the relationship between innovation activity and different types of participation in GVCs; identifies the current trends in the dynamics of Russia’s participation in the GVCs of non-material industries.Methods. This study uses the generalized least squares method to perform a regression analysis of panel data form 10 service industries for 2005–2015 and analyze the relationship between different types of Russia’s participation in the GVCs of service industries and innovation activity.Results. The relationship between innovation activity and different types of participation in GVCs is statistically proven. There was identified a general upward trend in Russia’s participation in international service trade. At the same time, the results of the analysis emphasize the importance of additional stimulation of innovation activity in order to increase Russia’s forward participation in international service trade and enable further upgrading in GVCs.

Global Value Chains, Preferential Trade, and the Middle-Income Trap

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-317
Author(s):  
Renato Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Preferential Trade ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Middle Income Trap ◽  
The Relationship

After a period of rapid growth, developing countries often experience a slowdown in growth and productivity, falling into what has come to be known as the “‘middle-income trap.” Production chains in East Asia, North America, and Western Europe have imposed a new model of production. Participating in global value chains became a policy issue. Market friendly trade policies—be it multilateral reductions of tariff and non-tariff barriers or preferential trade agreements with selected economies—are an essential part of this model. The relationship between value chains and regional integration has gained momentum, partly because participation in value chains is identified as a source of competitiveness, much needed for economies facing the middle-income trap. The relationship between preferential trade and participation in value chains as a means to deal with the middle-income trap is the subject of this chapter.

Local Entrepreneurship within Global Value Chains: A Case Study in the Mexican Automotive Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1013-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar F. Contreras ◽  
Jorge Carrillo ◽  
Jorge Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains

Reimagining the Unimaginable: Law and the Ongoing Transformation of Global Value Chains into Integrated Legal Entities

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-185
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Sobel-Read
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Global Commerce ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Single Category ◽  
Made In

AbstractThere is a growing push to reduce the labour and environmental harms caused throughout the supply chains of large corporations. But very little progress has been made in holding these corporations legally responsible for such harms. This corporate immunity is not caused by shortcomings in the law itself but rather by the limits of the categories through which we make sense of the world. For voters and policymakers alike, regulation is only appropriate for entities that fall into the same category of classification. And so far in our collective understanding, the firms in global supply chains have each inhabited separate legal categories and so each is deemed to have separate legal responsibility. As a result, the chains as a whole have remained free from regulation. But as global commerce becomes more systematised, global value chains are becoming more intimately integrated. This practical integration is likewise transforming our thinking: we are coming to understand chains as discrete entities within a single category. As this transformation solidifies, the regulation of entire chains will no longer be unthinkable but rather inevitable. Drawing on the insight of Mary Douglas and Benedict Anderson, I substantiate these assertions with evidence from corporate accounts, legislation and popular media.

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