Author : Johan Swinnen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368270
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Book Synopsis Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development by : Johan Swinnen
Download or read book Quality Standards, Value Chains, and International Development written by Johan Swinnen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 standards, as well as their economic effects along the value chain. Using realistic assumptions motivated by empirical research, the theoretical framework in this book makes it possible to study the efficiency effects as well as the distributional consequences of one of the most striking evolutions affecting global trade and development today.