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Supply Chain Finance : A New Means to Support the Competitiveness and Resilience of Global Value Chains
Lamoureux, Jean-François - 2012
The emergence of integrative trade and global value chains (GVCs) over the past 20 years has changed the competitive landscape in international goods and services markets. Competition in many lines of businesses, particularly in the manufacturing sector, is now taking place more at a value chain...
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International Comparative Evidence on Global Value Chains
de Backer, Koen - 2012
of the world economy. An increasing number of firms, countries and other economic actors take part in today's global … to produce goods and services and export these to the rest of world (Sturgeon and Gereffi, 2009). Countries just like …
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Global Value Chains, Foreign Direct Investment, and Taxation
Dahlby, Bev - 2012
This research volume is concerned with the causes and consequences of global value chains — the fragmentation of production across firms and international boundaries. Figure 1 provides a schema for thinking about these phenomena. The total value of inputs used in producing a given level of...
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Four Revolutions in Global Philanthropy
Martin, Maximilian - 2013
The paper identifies and analyzes the four main fault lines which will influence the next decades of global philanthropy. All are related to what we can refer to as "the market revolution in global philanthropy". As global philanthropy moves beyond grantmaking, into investment approaches that...
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The Social Question in a Transnational Context
Somek, Alexander - 2014
The social question has come down upon us in two different understandings. Modestly understood, it is about helping the needy and creating opportunities for disadvantaged members of society. More ambitiously conceived, by contrast, it is about extricating human life generally from the false...
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The Argument From Transnational Effects II : Establishing Transnational Democracy
Somek, Alexander - 2010
This article continues with a discussion of what the author calls the argument from transnational effects. It says that supranational or transnational forms of integration, in particular market integration, are desirable on account of democracy itself. National democracies find themselves...
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Globalization, Information Revolution, and Their Relations to Education : Emphasizing J.F. Lyotard's View
Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow - 2012
the shape and characteristics of community in the era of globalization. The viewpoint of virtual community calls us from …
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The Spirit of Global Belonging : Perspectives from Some Humanity-Oriented Icons
Farooq, Mohammad Omar - 2010
Many forces are making the world increasingly smaller and a movement for global citizenship is underway. Better …-belonging (aka belonging to the world) ought to be widely embraced. In this brief essay, we explore the need for the spirit by …., world renowned for the struggle against racism, Mohandas Gandhi, a well known spiritual and political leader from India, and …
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Services Provision and Temporary Mobility : Freedoms and Regulation in the EU
Bertola, Giuseppe; Mola, Lorenza - 2010
International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and market correcting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...
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Valuing Headquarters (HQS) : Analysis of the Role, Value and Benefit of HQS in Global Value Chains
Bloom, Michael; Grant, Michael - 2012
This report explores the growing importance of corporate headquarters in a world of global value chains. It examines … headquarters around the world and in Canada. It concludes with suggestions as to how governments may encourage headquarters to … locate in Canada. Governments around the world are keen to attract headquarters to their jurisdictions for a variety of …
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