This report provides an integrated view of Sri Lanka's long term development challenges for sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Sri Lanka's substantial achievements in human development are well known. In several dimensions - such as universal primary enrollment, gender equality, infant...

Cover -- Development with Global Value Chains -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- Dimensions of GVCs -- Division of knowledge and capabilities -- The dynamics of knowledge distribution -- Strategies of interaction -- Income distribution -- Types of...

Can firms and economies utilize global value chains for development? How can they move from low-income to middle-income and even high-income status? This book addresses these questions through a series of case studies examining upgradation and innovation by firms operating in GVCs in Asia. The...

This paper discusses the Brazilian rural development model in the context of Green Economy and the debate about sustainable development, issues that have been discussed in international sphere. In this way, conceptions and new concepts have been defined which clarify the ideas and mechanisms...