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Global value chains and human development: a class-relational framework
Global Value Chain proponents argue that regional and human development can be achieved through ‘strategic coupling’ with transnational corporations. This argument is misleading for two reasons. First, GVC abstracts firm-firm and firm-state relations from their class-relational basis, obscuring fundamental developmental processes. Second, much GVC analysis promotes linear conceptions of development. This article provides a class-relational framework for GVC analysis. The formation and functioning of GVCs and the developmental effects associated with them are products of histories of evolving and often conflictive, class relations. A study of export horticulture in North East Brazil provides empirical support for these arguments.
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Third World QuarterlyISSN
0143-6597Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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10Volume
37Page range
1768-1786Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
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2016-05-24First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-02-16First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-05-24Usage metrics
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