Making Global Value Chains (PDF)

This book investigates the recent rise of the
market-oriented value chain approach in development policy with a focus on the
agro-export sector in the Global South. The research project aims at unveiling
the political, social and cultural processes around the circulation of market
rationales at the global scale and on the ground. In-depth analyses of two
exemplary settings, Peru and Ghana, reveal the extent to which national
policies, development programs, laws and academic curricula have adopted a
"thinking in terms of value chains" in the last decade. By embracing
the perspectives of policymakers, consultants, entrepreneurs and producers,
this book provides exciting first-hand insights about the making of markets for
scholars and development practitioners alike.

Content

• The associational politics of markets
  
• Public policy and pro-poor development in Peru
  
• Technocrats and technologies of trust in Ghana
  
• Commodity circuits
  

Target Group

• Scholars in the field of the social studies of economization
  and marketization, economic geography, economic sociology, development studies,
  political science, ethnography
  
• Development practitioners
  

The Author
Dorothee Niebuhr studied Geography, French, International
Relations and European Migrations in Mainz, Dijon and Canada and obtained a
doctor's degree in Economic Geography from Goethe University Frankfurt. During
her field research, she worked with a leading international development
organization on market-oriented development in Ghana and Peru.