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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains
Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities of fragmented global supply chains.Last month, a team of economists from PREM's...
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Re-thinking Trade Policy Priorities in a Supply-Chain-Driven World
A company importing desktop computers into Russia expects border processing times of up to six weeks. Chinese customs authorities take so long inspecting drug shipments that a global healthcare company...
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Shifting Focus in Trade Agreements – From Market Access to Value-Chain Barriers
Value chains are an ever more prominent feature of global commerce, with goods being processed – and value being added – in multiple countries that are part of the chain. No longer is trade as simple...
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More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Why Logistics Matter for Your Kindle
Picture a global supply chain. The one that puts together the Amazon Kindle, for example: The flex circuit conductors are made in China, the wireless card is made in South Korea, and the tablet is...
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Shocks Hit Workers Twice In Offshoring Industries: Lessons From Mexico
The world is increasingly interconnected, and nowhere is a better example of that than the border between Mexico and the US. Lined with factories, the division between the two countries is blurred by a...
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Women's Untapped Potential: Examining Gender Dynamics in Global Trade
Maria knows she is good at selecting ripe tomatoes, but she doesn’t know any women who own nurseries like the one where she works in Honduras. Susan does housekeeping for a hotel in Kenya, but there is...
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At the Heart of the Matter: Improved Market Access to Food Supplies
At the Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Bali on December 2013, all WTO members reached an agreement on trade facilitation and a compromise on food security issues, a contentious topic which...
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