The African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Global Commodity Chain for Clothing

By P. Gibbon. 2003

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management

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Asian firms and the restructuring of global value chains (2014, background): “…garment manufacturers in a variety of different countries (Chiu, 2007; Fernandez-Stark, Frederick, & Gereffi, 2011; Gereffi & Bair, 2010; Gibbon, 2003a,b; Kaplinsky & Morris, 2008; Lall, 2005; Morris, Staritz, & Barnes, 2011; Natsuda, Goto, & Thoburn, 2010; Phelps, Stillwell, & Wanjiru,…”
Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (2010, background): “…many factors cited for inhibiting the development of Africa and other low-income countries has been the trade barriers imposed by high-income countries on the imports of commodities in which poor countries are likely to have a comparative advantage: textiles and agricultural products in particular.”
Do the Asian drivers undermine export-oriented industrialization in SSA? (2008, background): “Increasingly, the intermediary system-integrators— predominantly based in East Asia—determine the geography of production (albeit not the geography of consumption)—in the global clothing and textiles sector (Gereffi, 1999; Gibbon, 2003; Gereffi & Memedovic, 2003; Kaplinsky, 2005).”
New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains: A Comparative European Perspective (2005, background): “Consequently, while UK supermarkets buy no produce through wholesale markets, French supermarkets buy in the region of 40% of their intake from this source (Gibbon, 2003).”
Competing hegemons? Chinese versus American geo-economic strategies in Africa (2007, background): “While African trade unionists estimate that 250,000 jobs in the textile and clothing industries have been lost due to Chinese import penetration, roughly the same number as created by AGOA (Gibbon, 2003; Mark, 2006).”