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The Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains brings together corporate investors, foundations, and NGO...

Leveraging Mining-Related Infrastructure Investments for Development (Rails, Port, Power, Water and ICT) To be beneficial for a country’s development, non-renewable resource extraction should be leveraged to build long-term assets, such as infrastructure, that will support sustainable and inclusive growth. This is especially critical for countries facing an infrastructure-funding gap (e.g. the World Bank’s Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic has estimated that Africa faces an annual in...

China Daily, May 10, 2021. Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University. Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development tha...

Guidance for a biorefining roadmap for Thailand Biorefineries present an alternative to fossil-based production, and can create employment, wealth and the ecosystem needed to make them function. Thailand is establishing a bioeconomy with widespread biorefining as a strategy for future economic growth. There is political will to establish in Thailand, if feasible, small, decentralised biorefineries to which farmers can lo...

The Impact of Innovation on Globalization is the eighth volume of the series China in the World. Like other volumes in the series, this volume includes views of leading Chinese scholars on China’s relations with other countries and regions in the world. In view of the theme of “globalization” in this volume, the contributors in this volume pay attention to how the Covid-19 pandemic impacts and challenges globalization, especially how it affects China, the United States, and their mutual ...

Sharing for Development: Knowledge Exchanges between East Asia and Africa

Electrical and electronics industry is one of the most internationally and regionally integrated industries in ASEAN, spreading all member states, says the ASEAN-Japan Centre 2 hours ago 2 hours ago Report “Global Value Chains in ASEAN: Electronics” is available for download on AJC website. ANTARA/Business Wire Tokyo--(Antara/Business Wire)- The electrical and electronics (E&E) industry is characterized by internationally fragmented but well-integrated production networks with geographical...

Digitizing global value chains improves risk management 1st April 2021 5 hours ago Dr Denis Hew during the webinar, Global Value Chains in the Post-Pandemic “New Normal", Wednesday, (Apr 7). (Antara / Azis Kurmala) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Director of the Policy Support Unit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Dr. Denis Hew views that the digitization of global value chains (GVCs) can improve risk management and reduce logistical bottlenecks. "Although the trend toward digitali...

ASEAN+3 to remain lucrative for global value chains investment 1st April 2021 6 hours ago AMRO Chief Economist Dr. Hoe Ee Khor during the webinar, Global Value Chains in the Post-Pandemic “New Normal", Wednesday. (7/4) (Antara / Azis Kurmala) Although we have seen some cross-border relocation of GVCs globally, the ASEAN+3 region will remain a highly attractive location for GVC investment in the post-pandemic world Jakarta (ANTARA) - AMRO Chief Economist Dr. Hoe Ee Khor opined that the...

Dr. Joerg S. Hofstetter, an expert in the management of multinational multi-tier supply chains with over 15 years of experience, is associate professor in supply chain management at KEDGE Business School Bordeaux, president of the International Forum on Sustainable Value Chains (ISVC), faculty member of Business School Lausanne, lecturer at the University of St. Gallen’s School of Management, and fellow of the Center for Organization Research & Design (CORD) at Arizona State University. He co...