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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"fragmentation of production"”.
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African industrial policy in an era of expanding global value chains: the case of Ethiopia's textile and leather industries
Throughout the history of capitalism, the process of industrialisation has been recognised as the engine of economic development. No region in the world ‘suffers’ more acutely from a lack of industrialisation than Africa, clearly highlighting the need for industrial policy. However, the formulation …
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Varieties of innovation : the creation of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States
… contemporary high-technology sectors? Theories of innovation presume a division of labor between firms in industrialized economies that invent and commercialize new technologies and those in developing economies that focus on production. Even as global supply chains have allowed firms to …
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Essays on Small Remote Island Economies (SRIES)
… island economies (SRIEs)—a unique grouping of countries that has not been addressed systematically in the economics literature. The rationale behind this categorisation lies in the interactions of smallness, islandness and remoteness. These interactions might exacerbate the problems face by …
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Corporate networks of international investment and trade
This thesis consists of three distinct papers, that each address the globalisation of industries in past decades, specifically the reorganisation of the production process. The structure of production has changed in recent decades; goods are no longer produced completely in one country, rather …
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Trade and Spatial Economic Interdependence: U.S. Interregional Trade and Regional Economic Structure
… motivated by the changing nature and structure of interregional trade within a country. Each region’s economic structural changes and new spatial organization of production generated by the fragmented production process made possible by an open economy with significantly lower transportation …