This Briefing Paper examines the resilience of the medical product and pharmaceutical global value chains. Based on this assessment, policy recommendations are presented to increase supply security, including measures to improve the resilience of supply chains, and to expand stockpiling. We also...

This policy note argues that the low income of cocoa farmers in the cocoa-chocolate global value chain (GVC) is not only a problem in itself, but also exacerbates social and environmental sustainability issues such as child labor and deforestation. The experience of the last two decades has...

Despite the heightened attention granted by the coronavirus crisis, low-skilled essential labor remains largely invisible. A particularly under-researched and hard-to-access group of employees are Amazon delivery workers, whose workload and health risks increased significantly during national...

This paper contributes to debates regarding the lack of theorization of the state and the overemphasis on lead firms in studies of global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs). This paper combines the GVC/GPN frameworks with a strategic-relational approach (SRA), a SRA...

Der vorliegende Report diskutiert die gegenwärtige Struktur der globalen Kakao Wertschöpfungskette (KS-WSK). Er zeigt auf, dass sich die arbeitsintensive Produktion von Kakaobohnen stark auf Côte d'Ivoire und Ghana konzentriert, während die kapitalintensive Verarbeitung der Bohnen sowie die...

This policy note argues that the low income of cocoa farmers in the cocoa-chocolate global value chain (GVC) is not only a problem in itself, but also exacerbates social and environmental sustainability issues such as child labor and deforestation. The experience of the last two decades has...