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

• Main Author: Niebuhr, Dorothee (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Business.; Globalization.; Markets.; Economic geography.; Development economics.; Business and Management.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Economic Geography.; Development Economics.

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...

Table of Contents:

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