Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I Theoretical Contributions
- Part II Local Agricultural Value Chains
- Part III International Agricultural Value Chains
- Part IV Value Chains in the Industrial and Services Sector
- Part V Conclusions: Upgrading Value Chains in Developing Countries
- About the Authors
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
10 - Upgrading of Value Chains in Developing Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I Theoretical Contributions
- Part II Local Agricultural Value Chains
- Part III International Agricultural Value Chains
- Part IV Value Chains in the Industrial and Services Sector
- Part V Conclusions: Upgrading Value Chains in Developing Countries
- About the Authors
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
Introduction
The title of this book is: Linking local producers to international markets by developing global value chains. We have given a number of examples in the previous chapters and emphasized that upgrading value chains in developing countries will increase the benefits these countries derive from being linked to world markets. China is probably the country that has benefited most from globalization, in the sense of increasing its exports and import technologies and currently buying whole companies abroad (Van Dijk, 2006). We started in chapter 1 with a Chinese consultant who indicated that developing countries need to have more control over global value chains to benefit more from their own products. That is exactly what China is practicing when it is investing in mining or other industries in Africa (Van Dijk, 2009), or when a Chinese company bought the famous IBM PC company in 2005 with its worldwide marketing network, to push China's relatively unknown computer trademark Lenovo on the world market. More control allows a country or its companies to earn more money and makes upgrading of these value chains easier. Upgrading value chains in developing countries is the topic of this chapter.
After some basic theoretical insights in chapters 1-3, this book has presented a number of cases of value chains of developing countries. This final chapter will review the upgrading strategies in these value chains. First, it will define the options for value chain upgrading, distinguishing four different strategies:
1 upgrading through an increase of value added;
2 upgrading by improving market access;
3 upgrading through better value chain governance structures; and
4 upgrading through partnerships.
These categories are derived from the elements of the framework for value chain analysis developed in chapter 3. Further, as suggested in chapter 1, attention will be paid to the major role of partnerships in upgrading processes.
Subsequently the upgrading options that are discussed in the various chapters in this book will be discussed one after another. Some of the cases focus on how to improve typical conditions/constraints for upgrading: Market access, infrastructures, and economic and social institutions. Others focus on different value chain upgrading options. We combine this analysis with a discussion how to handle value chain upgrading constraints.
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- Global Value ChainsLinking Local Producers from Developing Countries to International Markets, pp. 237 - 250Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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