Making Global Value Chains: Geographies of Market-Oriented Development in Ghana and Peru - Softcover

Niebuhr, Dorothee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658132868 ISBN 13: 9783658132866

Publisher: Springer Gabler, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About 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. 

From the Back Cover

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
  
• Commoditycircuits
  

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658132868
• ISBN 13: 9783658132866
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 301