A New Economic Geography of Trade and Development? Governing South–South Trade, Value Chains and Production Networks

Territory, Politics, Governance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 400-420

  Horner, Rory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

development; global production networks; global value chains; South South; trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981736163     PISSN: 21622671     EISSN: 2162268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2015.1073614     Document Type: Article

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