Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development

by Koen Deconinck, Jo Swinnen, Thijs Vandemoortele, et al.

Book Overview

Over the past decades, the world has witnessed an unprecedented growth in global value chains, propelled by increasingly demanding quality standards. These trends lead to concerns about the impact of value chains on development and poverty and about the possible protectionist nature of quality standards in rich countries. This book offers the first integrated theoretical analysis of the economic and political factors which determine the level of quality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107688868
• ISBN13: 9781107688865
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"