Synchronized Factories : Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Prologue
- Purpose of the Report
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Preliminaries: Concepts, Trends, and Frameworks
- Supply Chains
- Offshoring Strategies
- Why Do Firms Fragment Production Internationally?
- What Do Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Stand to Gain?
- Immense Opportunities but also Potential Risks
- Rationale for Public Policy
- Chapter 2: The Participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in International Supply Chains
- Evidence from Intra-industry Trade Indexes
- Evidence from Trade in Value Added
- Evidence from FDI Data
- Evidence from Trade in Services
- Recapitulating
- Chapter 3: The Drivers of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analyses
- Synchronizing Trade: The Role of Transportation, Communication, and Logistics Infrastructure
- Policy Issues
- Production Disintegration and Market Integration: Deep Integration Agreements at Work
- Policy Issues
- Production Unbundling and Firm Boundaries: Foreign Affiliates or Local Suppliers?
- Policy Issues
- Service Offshoring: Grasping the Intangibles
- Policy Issues
- Chapter 4: What It Takes to Join an International Value Chain: The Firm-Level Evidence
- No Ordinary Firms
- Empirical Regularities from Case Studies
- Empirical Regularity 1: Prior Exposure to International Practices and/or Markets
- Empirical Regularity 2: Targeting of Market Segments Based on Some Form of Comparative Advantage
- Empirical Regularity 3: Painstaking Accumulation of Capabilities and Use of Certifications as Evidence of Proficiency
- Empirical Regularity 4: Firms Leveraged Resources and Collaborated with Other Peers to Address Common Challenges
- Empirical Regularity 5: Continuing to Learn and Improving Capabilities Even After Joining a GVC
- Policy Lessons from the Empirical Regularities
- Local Linkages.
- Exploit Synergies Through a Coordinated Approach
- Chapter 5: Conclusions
- Appendix A
- Trade in Value Added and Set of Countries
- Comparator Groups
- FDI Dataset
- Appendix B
- Specification for the Model of Vertical FDI and Logistics Infrastructure
- The Effects of Economic Integration Agreements: Estimation and Data Sources
- Specification for the Model of Intra-firm Trade
- Specification for the Model of Service Offshoring
- Appendix C Specification for Measuring the Performance of Vertically Linked Affiliates
- References.