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Global Value Chains: New EADI Book edited by Meine Pieter van Dijk and Jacques Trienekens This important volume presents seven case studies of global value chains alongside two theoretical chapters concerning these chains. The contributors explore a wide range of issues relevant to value chains: the impact of global value chains on local upgrading strategies, the role of governance structures shaping global value chains, the role of buyers in creating, monitoring and enforcing commodity specifications and of international standards in shaping the patterns of chain governance. They also consider the role of donors, governmental organisations, and civil society in influencing value chains and the importance of partnerships as mechanisms for value chain upgrading. This carefully researched work is essential reading to scholars and students of the rapidly changing global economic order. Orders

Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies Editors: Eric Rugraff & Michael W. Hansen Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies aims at contributing to the emerging literature on multinational corporation (MNC)local firm interfaces by providing a number of country studies from emerging economies of the spillover and linkage effects of multinational corporations on local firms. Moreover, the book takes the issue to the policy level by sharing and evaluating policy experiences from a number of countries on efforts to promote closer interaction between MNCs and local firms. The country studies are placed within a framework for analysing MNC-local firm interfaces that integrates insights from the spillover and linkage literature. Orders

European Development Cooperation - In Between the Local and the Global

Ed. Paul Hoebink

Paul Hoebink holds an Extraordinary Professorship in Development Cooperation at the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN) at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

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"The Lisbon Treaty puts European international and development cooperation at a cross-road. Will the Union be able to keep up its strong joint record? Hoebink et al provide a well-chosen, inviting mix of insights in some of the multiple challenges emerging."
Paul Engel, Director, European Centre for Development Policy Management – ECDPM

"Paul Hoebink and his co-authors make two important contributions in this volume. First, they bring clear-headed analysis to bear on the important question of Europe’s contribution to global poverty reduction. And, second, they help build a community of scholars and practitioners whose collective effort will translate analysis into action."
Simon Maxwell, Senior Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute, London

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The New Presence of China in Africa

Ed. Meine Pieter van Dijk

This book describes China's growing range of activities in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan region. The three most important instruments China has at its disposal in Africa are development aid, investments and trade policy. The Chinese government, which believes the Western development aid model has failed, is looking for new forms of aid and development in Africa. China's economic success can partly be ascribed to the huge availability of cheap labour, which is primarily employed in export-oriented industries. China is looking for the required raw materials in Africa, and for new marketplaces. Investments are being made on a large scale in Africa by Chinese state-controlled firms and private companies, particularly in the oil-producing countries (Angola, Nigeria and Sudan) and countries rich in minerals (Zambia). Third, the trade policy China is conducting is analysed in China and compared with that of Europe and the United States.

In case studies the specific situation in several African countries is examined. In Zambia the mining industry, construction and agriculture are described. One case study of Sudan deals with the political presence of China in Sudan and the extent to which Chinese arms suppliers contributed to the current crisis in Darfur. The possibility of Chinese diplomacy offering a solution in that conflict is discussed.

The conclusion considers whether social responsibility can be expected of the Chinese government and companies and if this is desirable, and to what extent the Chinese model in Africa can act as an example – or not – for the West.

Meine Pieter van Dijk is professor of water services management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft and part-time professor at the Economic Faculty of Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Reviews
This is one of the best books on Chinese-African relations from an economic-managerial perspective. It provides a great insight on Chinese FDI, Foreign Aid and Trade with Africa and therefore a must for policy-makers, researchers and students dealing with the influence of China in Africa.

Diederik de Boer, Director of the Sustainable Development Centre, Maastricht School of Management

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2008: Decentralisation in Africa

by Gordon Crawford and Christof Hartmann

This volume tackles head-on two crucial issues concerning the relationship between decentralisation and development. In an uncompromising assessment of controversial claims, it provides comprehensive evidence-based analysis and critique of this key policy prescription for Africa.

Professor Nancy Thede, Department of Political Science, Quebec University, Montreal

"This is a major contribution to the study of decentralisation in Africa as it does not stop at describing intentions, but deals with implementation successes and shortcomings. The balance sheet of intended and unintended effects of a major reform on both poverty and conflict is convincingly established on the basis of a limited number of case studies, comparative analysis and theoretical considerations. Essential reading for both academics and decision-makers in this field. "

Andreas Mehler, Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg

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2007: EU Development Policy in a Changing World: Challenges for the 21st Century

edited by Andrew Mold.

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"This excellent book, covering the history, present and future of Europe’s relations with developing countries, explores the challenges and problems that determine EU development policy."

Professor Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

"This volume of collected papers provides many interesting insights into the European development strategy, and suggests a major rethink in a number of areas, particularly with regards to allowing developing country more policy space to devise their own policies. The book advances strong arguments that deserve serious attention."

Ha-Joon Chang, Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

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