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Bargawi, Bargawi, H.; Newman, Newman, S.A. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013

formation, transmission and the producer price experience in low-income countries. By investigating the case study of coffee … liberalisation in producing countries have acted to reorganize coffee chains into structures in which certain chain actors have …

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Modernisation, clearance and the continuum of violence in Colombia

Ross, Ross, E.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2003

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Modernisation, clearance and the continuum of violence in Colombia

ROSS, E.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2003

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Compromising social justice in fairtrade?

Das, Das, R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

and development goals as they enter mainstream markets which are dominated by neo-liberalism, unequal terms of trade and …, India, the paper shows shifts in the development of the FTO, the introduction of a certification regime and the emerging … with cooperatives, rising partnership with large scale NGOs and setting up of a Business Development Unit within the …

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Asian drivers and the future of responsible production and consumption: exploring a research question and hypotheses for future research.

Knorringa, Peter - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

This paper raises two questions to take a first step in developing a research agenda to assess the developmental relevance of responsible production, which includes both Fair Trade and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The first question is: How likely is it that responsible...

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Asian drivers and the future of responsible production and consumption

Knorringa, Knorringa, P. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007

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Development through global value chains and the achievement of decent work : challenges to work and representational processes

Pegler, Pegler, L.J. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

globalisation on labour, especially for developing countries. Whilst many development agencies argue for value chain insertion and … upgrading as optimistic development pathways, many studies suggest a nuanced, conditional evaluation of the potential impacts on …

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Firm Heterogeneity and Development: A Meta Analysis of FDI Productivity Spill-overs

Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Mebratie, Mebratie, A.D. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2011

abstract: In order to assess the relationship between economic development and firm heterogeneity, this paper studies ….000, but also remains substantial at higher levels of development We take stock of the rich literature on FDI …

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The weight of economic and commercial diplomacy

Yakop, Mina; Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of economic and commercial diplomacy on the geography of international trade. We replicate a recent study by Rose (2007) extending the analysis to include the year 2006 and 63 importing and exporting countries. Using a gravity model we are able to demonstrate...

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Feminist knowledge and human security: bridging rifts through the epistemology of care

Truong, Thanh-Dam - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009

The essay proposes to re-orient feminist debates on epistemology towards the care-security nexus as a pathway that can plausibly provide an integral understanding of a human-centred and eco-minded security. Seeing ‘gender’ in binary terms tends to produce an understanding of ‘care’ as...

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