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Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain 国家对全球价值链中劳工标准的协同治理：马来西亚-尼泊尔-英国医用手套供应链中的强迫劳动

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241272190

James A Brown, Alex Hughes, Mahmood F Bhutta, A. Trautrims, Mei L Trueba

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Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation 中非合作时代尼日利亚的产业政策转型

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241265817

M. Odijie

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State capacity for green growth: Analyzing industrial policy in the Latin American lithium triangle 促进绿色增长的国家能力：分析拉丁美洲锂三角的产业政策

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241249202

Sebastián Carrasco

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The active underbelly of developmentalism: The power of the state in the twenty-first century 发展主义的活跃底色：二十一世纪的国家权力

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241244938

Christopher Wylde

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Limitations of coordinative Europeanisation in the Just Transition Mechanism in Romania 罗马尼亚公正过渡机制中协调性欧洲化的局限性

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241242256

Clara Volintiru, Sanda Nicola

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Law, knowledge and space: Expertise across the legal geographies of green finance 法律、知识和空间：跨越绿色金融法律地域的专业知识

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241240921

Lukas Bogner

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Changing international hegemony and dependency in peripheral countries: A case study of Latin America 不断变化的国际霸权与周边国家的依赖性：拉丁美洲案例研究

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241235686

Barbara Stallings

{"title":"Changing international hegemony and dependency in peripheral countries: A case study of Latin America","authors":"Barbara Stallings","doi":"10.1177/10245294241235686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294241235686","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on demand-driven growth models, while an important contribution to comparative political economy, places too much emphasis on developed countries and too little on the international political economic context. To extend these models to the periphery, where international influence is especially important, it is suggested that theories of hegemony and dependency be incorporated into the analysis. The main argument is that international relationships can limit the ability of peripheral countries to produce more sophisticated goods and attain high-income status. The nature of the limits varies with the needs of the hegemon (or rising hegemon), which are met via three dependency mechanisms: markets, leverage, and linkage. The proposed approach is illustrated by a study of Latin America from 1990 to 2020. After following a consumption-led model from the end of WWII until the debt crisis of the 1980s, a new export-led model was introduced in the 1990s, with different variants in the northern and southern parts of the hemisphere and different “winners” and “losers.” In the 1990s, US dominance favored Mexico through its incorporation into US industrial value chains, while China’s entrance into the region after 2000 privileged South America’s commodity producers. The trade and financial advantages afforded the two subregions by the respective powers were offset by negative aspects of the dependent relationships. Mexico’s sophisticated industries financed by US FDI benefited only certain enclaves in the country, while South America suffered reprimarization and deindustrialization through its new links with China.","PeriodicalId":207354,"journal":{"name":"Competition & Change","volume":"239 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously 增长模式和社会集团：认真对待葛兰西

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241231992

Christian May, A. Nölke, Michael Schedelik

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Growth models and social blocs: Taking Gramsci seriously 增长模式和社会集团：认真对待葛兰西

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241231992

Christian May, A. Nölke, Michael Schedelik

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The three ages of the European policy for productive investments 欧洲生产性投资政策的三个时代

Competition & Change Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/10245294241232163

Pierre Alayrac, Antonin Thyrard

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