Charles W. L. Hill
Part One-Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Globalization Case: Who Makes the Apple iPhone? Part Two-Country Differences Chapter 2: National Differences in Political Economy Chapter 3: Political Economy and Economic Development Chapter 4: Differences in Culture Chapter 5: Ethics in International B...
Ronald Lulijwa, Emmanuel Rupia, Andrea C. Alfaro
Abstract This review focuses on the current status of antibiotics use, effects on animal health and the environment, existing policies and regulatory mechanisms in the top 15 producing countries. Fifty papers were reviewed and represented the bulk of literature worldwide. We observed that 67 antibio...
Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashish Kumar, John Almeida, Yogesh Chawla et al.
The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up a working party on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) in 2004, with a mandate to develop consensus guidelines on various aspects of ACLF relevant to disease patterns and clinical practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Experts p...
Shahariar Chowdhury, Kazi Sajedur Rahman, Tanjia Chowdhury, Narissara Nuthammachot et al.
End-of-life (EOL) solar panels may become a source of hazardous waste although there are enormous benefits globally from the growth in solar power generation. Global installed PV capacity reached around 400 GW at the end of 2017 and is expected to rise further to 4500 GW by 2050. Considering an aver...
Jing Meng, Zhifu Mi, Dabo Guan, Jiashuo Li et al.
Abstract Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO 2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, w...
Soumya Mandal, Barun K. Das, Najmul Hoque
This study investigates the potential application of hybridized energy system (i.e., PV/Wind/Diesel) with battery storage in the northern region of Bangladesh. A techno-economic feasibility of different system configurations is evaluated and an optimized system is selected using HOMER (Hybrid Optimi...
Gary Gereffi, Stacey Frederick
This paper examines the impact of two crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade Organization phase-out of the quota system for textiles and apparel in 2005, which provided access for many poor and small export-oriented economies to the markets of industrialized countries, and the cur...
Mark Anner
Workers’ rights violations have been pervasive in many global supply chains. In the apparel sector, production workers often face precarious working conditions, including persistently low pay, excessive and often forced overtime, unsafe buildings, and repression of their right to form unions and bar...
Ashok Gulati, Nicholas Minot, Cecília Delgado, Siddheswar Bora
This chapter describes the growth of high-value agriculture, its direct implications for the restructuring of the agricultural supply chains (including the emergence of contract farming and other forms of vertical coordination) and its indirect implications for the role of small farmers. The chapter...
Fahreen Alamgir, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
This article reports the findings of a field study on the emergence of collective agreements led by global brands enacting compliance measures to improve safety and working conditions in the Bangladesh garment industry. We explore how key actors in the Bangladesh garment sector who constitute the lo...
Muntasir Murshed
This paper primarily aimed to assess the impacts of regional trade integration on the prospects of undergoing renewable energy transition in selected South Asian economies between 1992 and 2015. The overall results from the econometric analyses, controlling for the cross-sectional dependency and slo...
Barun K. Das, Majed A. Alotaibi, Pronob Das, Md Saiful Islam et al.
In this study, the economic and environmental benefits of stand-alone and grid integration are thoroughly analyzed with different system configurations of a PV/Wind/Diesel/Battery based hybrid energy system (HES) for five different climatic regions using hybrid optimization model for electric renewa...
David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman
John Stuart Mill's comment that the British Caribbean was really a part of the British domestic economy, because almost all its trade was with British buyers and sellers, is used to make a new assessment of the importance of the eighteenth-century slave systems to British industrialization. If the v...
Solomon Prince Nathaniel, Muntasir Murshed, Mohga Bassim
Thomas W. Hertel, L. Alan Winters
This study reports on the findings from \n a major international research project investigating the \n poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda \n (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several \n strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive \n a...