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BWPI/IDPM-Led Consortium Wins £1.5 Million DFID Research Grant For Research on Global Production Networks
The Department for International Development of the UK government has awarded a £1.5 million grant to a consortium led by IDPM and BWPI for a collaborative cross-country research programme on global production networks (GPN).
The programme, entitled Capturing the Gains: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks, is led by Dr Stephanie Barrientos (BWPI/IDPM), and aims to promote policies and interventions for fairer trade that benefit poorer producers and workers and promote more sustainable development in the South.
Analysis of GPNs examines the changing commercial linkages and patterns in contemporary trade between firms operating across countries in the north and south. It identifies the concepts of economic and social upgrading as important factors within GPNs contributing to more sustainable growth and development.
An important dimension of the research is to inform, and be informed by, policy actors and practitioners engaged in developing country participation in global production networks. It will involve ongoing dissemination of findings through a website, seminars, briefing papers, visual tools, and publications.
An international network of researchers will carry out cross-country case studies and comparative research to offer a fresh perspective on development policy in a global economy.
Follow this link for more information on the research programme (PDF, 22KB).
23 September 2009