Future Fragmentation Processes: Effectively Engaging with the Ascendancy of Global Value Chains

Commonwealth Secretariat

doi:10.14217/9781848599604-en

Future Fragmentation Processes: Effectively Engaging with the Ascendancy of Global Value Chains

Authors

Commonwealth Secretariat

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-en

Synopsis

Leveraging the power of trade to expand formal employment opportunities, generate greater value addition, assist diversification processes and develop productive capabilities is an aspiration of all Commonwealth governments. These objectives were conveyed clearly at the Commonwealth Trade Ministers Meeting convened in March 2017.

There are areas of mutual interest and where enhanced co-ordination between member countries could enhance trade gains. Because the ability to transmit tacit knowledge through Commonwealth trade, finance and investment networks is inherent in the trade cost advantage shared by members - which exists without formal collaboration – it suggests the sharing of already known best practice could further enhance the gains from more concerted action.

In order to engage effectively with contemporary trade, which manifests as global value chains (GVCs), it is incumbent on governments to better understand corporate strategies. In this publication, as well as taking stock of past performance, we reflect on potential dynamics and future fragmentation processes.

Chapters

Foreword

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-1-en

PDF
Preface

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-2-en

PDF
Abbreviations and acronyms

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-3-en

PDF
Slowdown in Asia's Global Value Chains and Industrial Latecomers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-4-en

PDF
Scale, Distance, and Remoteness in Global Value Chains

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-5-en

PDF
The Changing Landscape in Commodity Markets and Trade and Implications for Development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-6-en

PDF
Effectively Governing Global Value Chains: The Institutional Interface

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-7-en

PDF
Modes of Service Delivery and Upgrading in Global Value Chains

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-8-en

PDF
Global Value Chains, Tax and Trade: Upgrading the Position of Small States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-9-en

PDF
Commodity Price Volatility: An Evolving Principal–Agent Problem

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-10-en

PDF
How Does Participation in International Value Chains Matter to African Farmers?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-11-en

PDF
Global Value-Chain Participation and Development: The Experience of Ghana's Pineapple Export Sector

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-12-en

PDF
Emerging Tiers of Suppliers and Implications for Upgrading in the High-Value Agriculture Supply Chains

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-13-en

PDF
The Global Value Chain in Canned Tuna, the International Trade Regime and Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-14-en

PDF
Clothing Value Chains and Sub-Saharan Africa: Global Exports, Regional Dynamics and Industrial Development Outcomes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-15-en

PDF
The Automotive GVC: Policy Implications for Developing Economies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-16-en

PDF
Tourism, Trade in Services and Global Value Chains

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-17-en

PDF
Understanding Shifts in Trade in Value Added: The Relative Position of the Commonwealth Caribbean and Pacific

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-18-en

PDF
The End of Industrial Policy? Why a Productive-Sector Policy Agenda Better Meets the Needs of Sustainable Income Growth

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-19-en

PDF
Making Global Value Chains Work for Development in the Age of Automation and Globalisation Scepticism

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-20-en

PDF
Delivering Inclusive Global Value Chains

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-21-en

PDF
Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework: A pragmatic Approach for Promoting Economic Structural Transformation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14217/9781848599604-22-en

PDF