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Uganda Dairy Supply Chain Risk Assessment

World Bank - 2011

Cattle are one of the main instruments for economic (e.g., milk, meat, and cattle sale) and social (e.g., marriage, death, dispute settlement, and gift giving) exchange in Uganda. They serve as the main source of livelihood for a large majority of rural Ugandans, especially in the cattle...

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Oriental Republic of Uruguay : Integration into Global Value Chains the Dairy Industry and the ICT Industry

Criscuolo, Alberto - 2014

Uruguay has much to gain from further integration with the global marketplace. Increased trade allows economies of scale and increases exposure to technological and knowledge spillovers, resulting in greater productivity. Participating in global and regional value chains is an important...

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Jobs for North Lebanon : Value Chains, Labor Markets, Skills and Investment Climate in Tripoli and the North of Lebanon

World Bank Group - 2017

for Lebanese in the more fragile and conflict-affected regions. The geographical focus is North Lebanon, including Tripoli … the design and development of a jobs-focused program of financial support for North Lebanon. This diagnostic and program …, foster productivity, and increase earnings: 1) an assessment of the investment climate in North Lebanon; 2) a value chain …

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Working with Smallholders : A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

2009

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Working with Smallholders : A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

International Finance Corporation - 2016

agricultural commodities. Smallholders also represent a potential customer base for firms marketing inputs, information, and …

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The Cashew Value Chain in Mozambique

Costa, Carlos - 2019

Mozambique has a low average yield of raw cashew nut (RCN) of 3 kg/tree. The latest census of agriculture in 2015 estimated that 1.33 million households owned cashew trees. Another 30,000 households were involved post-harvest. One-half of RCN production sold was processed in 2015, up from 1/3 in...

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Making global value chains work for development

Taglioni, Daria; Winkler, Deborah - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

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Depreciations without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports

Ahmed, Swarnali - 2015

This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...

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Zambia Jobs in Value Chains : Opportunities in Agribusiness

Krishnan, Sudha Bala - 2017

This study analyzes from a jobs perspective two high potential value chains (VCs) in Zambia's agribusiness sector poultry and aquaculture. With more than 50 percent of workers and over 80 percent of poor Zambians recording themselves in agriculture in the 2010 population census, raising...

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Measuring what matters in global value chains and value-added trade : World Development Report 2020 : background paper

Borin, Alessandro; Mancini, Michele - 2019

The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...

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