Globalization, poverty and inequality: between a rock and a hard place

By Raphael Kaplinsky. 2005

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Enforcing higher labor standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy (2019, background): “Increased costs in buyer-dominated GVCs are mitigated to some extent because returns at almost every stage of the value chain are determined by the lead firm (Kaplinsky, 2005; Kaplinsky & Morris, 2001; Gereffi, 2014).”
11. Capitalism, Technology and a Green Global Golden Age: The Role of History in Helping to Shape the Future (2015, background): “29 Kaplinsky (2011) 30 Kaplinsky (2005); Perez (2010); Marin et al.”
Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, neutral): “Power relations have remained conceived in predominantly economic terms, and the theorisation of power primarily centres on firms as agents (Dallas 2015) that seek to generate economic rents in GVCs (Kaplinsky 2005; Levy 2008: 945).”
Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: Problems of theory and measurement (2011, neutral): “The 7 For a review of the evidence on the terms of trade, see Kaplinsky (2005). active use of EPZs in East Asia, Central America and the Caribbean has been widely studied since they were created in the 1970s and 1980s.”
Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries (2009, background): “While some countries and regions show clear signs of being on the right track, others – especially in Africa and parts of Latin America – are falling behind in terms of upgrading, growth, unemployment and poverty (Kaplinsky, 2005).”
Power in global value chains (2019, positive): “…broadened from a focus on buyer power to include how key suppliers in some industries have been able to establish more powerful positions by following paths and strategies that not only create value but also retain it (Kaplinsky, 2005; Kawakami, 2011; Sako & Zylberberg, 2017; Sturgeon, 2002, 2009).”
From Industrial to Innovation Policy (2007, background): “As Kaplinsky (2005) has shown there are increasingly also signs of deindustrialisation in countries such as China and India.”
Explaining governance in global value chains: A modular theory-building effort (2014, positive): “As for who does the organizing, a group of ‘lead firms’ play a critical role by defining the terms of supply-chain membership, incorporating or excluding other actors, and allocating where, when and by whom value is added (Gereffi, 1994; Gibbon and Ponte, 2005; Kaplinsky, 2005).”
Asian firms and the restructuring of global value chains (2014, background): “…the analytical lens of the global value chains (GVC) framework where ‘lead’ firms monopolise high rent activities such as design, distribution, marketing and retailing while outsourcing low cost, and low return, functions to developing country garment manufacturers (Gereffi, 1999; Kaplinsky, 2005).”
Labour in Global Value Chains: Work Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan (2012, background): “Downgrading involves moving into lower value-added activities, squeezing labour by providing lower wages, and failing to abide by social and environmental laws that regulate production in export-oriented industries (Gibbon and Ponte, 2005; Kaplinsky, 2005).”
Unfree labour and adverse incorporation in the global economy: comparative perspectives on Brazil and India (2013, neutral): “…those development processes themselves can produce and reproduce poverty that poverty is generated by the particular kinds of power relations which underpin contemporary forms of development (Bernstein, 1990; Green & Hulme, 2005; Hickey & du Toit, 2007; Kaplinsky, 2005; Mosse, 2010; Tilly, 1998).”