Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, And The Global Economy - Softcover

Peter Gibbon; Stefano Ponte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592133681 ISBN 13: 9781592133680

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The role of Africa in the global economy is changing as a result of new corporate strategies, changing international trade regulation and innovative ways of overseeing the globalized production and distribution of goods. African participants in the global economy are facing demands for higher levels of performance and quality. Their responses have generated the occasional success but also many failures. Noted researchers Peter Gibbon and Stefano Ponte describe the central processes that are at the same time integrating some into the global economy while marginalizing others. They show the effects of these processes on African cou

About this title

From the Publisher:

Examining the effects of integration and marginalization on African farms and firms

About the Author:

Peter Gibbon is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. Amongst his authored works is A Blighted Harvest: The World Bank and African Agriculture in the 1980s. He has also edited numerous books. Stefano Ponte is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He is the author of Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Market Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa and co-author (with Benoit Daviron) of The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592133681
• ISBN 13: 9781592133680
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272