Stein, Peer | 2011
- Author(s): Stein, Peer
- Publisher: International finance corporation (IFC)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agribusiness, agricultural product marketing, credit, finance, development policy
In addition to policy recommendations and background information concerning policies, this paper also briefly reviews promising approaches, including innovative financial instruments such as value chain finance, warehouse receipts, branchless banking, and index-based insurance schemes.
Sturgeon, Timothy J. | 2000
- Author(s): Sturgeon, Timothy J.
- Publisher: Massachusetts instute of technology (MIT)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: industrial production, industrial procurement, economic analysis, globalization
The difference between value chains and production networks is explained and their importance in analysing globalization is outlined. Synonyms of value chains and production networks are provided.
Subramanian, Uma | 2007
- Author(s): Subramanian, Uma
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: enterprise development, small enterprises, market access, competition, investment promotion, globalization, purchasing, development policy, mozambique, indonesia
The World Bank uses a wide range of products to address economy-wide business environment issues and underlying public policy issues. One of them, the value chain approach, uncovers sector-specific constraints.
Subramanian, Uma | 2006
- Author(s): Subramanian, Uma
- Publisher: World bank [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: globalization, manufacturing, international competition, industrial marketing, trade policy, administrative procedure, logistics, institutional infrastructure
The use of value chain analysis in improving competitiveness is discussed. Special attention is paid to benchmarking against global competition, the development of targeted action programs, and poverty alleviation.
Subramanian, Uma and Matthijs, Matthias | 2007
- Author(s): Subramanian, Uma and Matthijs, Matthias
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: international trade, commodity trade, agricultural products, industrial products, purchasing, tourism, marketing, trade policy, globalization, africa south of sahara, ghana, kenya, nigeria, lesotho, south africa, mozambique
Critical factors for Africa's effective participation in global network trade are: price, speed-to-market, labor productivity, flexibility, product quality, effective policies, efficient institutions, and infrastructure.