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As it stands, a lag in technological adoption and innovation is contributing to the growing divide between China and the Western developed countries, stifling economic transformation and upgrading, and hampering China’s ability to move up global value chains.
Trade tensions between the United States and China are threatening the integrity of global value chains, and Britain’s looming exit from the European Union has the potential to cause even more disruption.
This includes training and agriculture-focused programs to absorb skills along the value chains that connect raw materials to industries and markets across Africa.
Today, despite the supposed civilizing effects of global supply chains, tinderboxes like Syria or the South China Sea could blow up the world – just as the Bosnian conflict did in 1914.
In order to meet this target and achieve their anti-deforestation commitments, several companies, including Nestlé, are moving toward fully traceable supply chains.
Many companies have already taken steps to increase visibility within their supply chains.
A clear indication of the problem is "fishing down the marine food web"-- the increasing tendency to land fish and shellfish from the bottom of marine food chains, often the prey of the larger fish that were previously targeted.
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal are all integrated into global horticultural value chains, and Ethiopia has become a leading player in global flower exports.
In the remarkable transformation of Central Europe’s economies in the 1990’s, management expertise and market access resulted from massive investments by German and other EU-based companies, which integrated local producers into their global value chains.
As conflict destroys local economic linkages and unravels well-established supply chains, it is also demolishing the very foundation on which a peaceful and prosperous social order can be built.
The PRD has the lowest population of the three, but the highest income per capita, and it forms an important link between China and global supply chains.
Another major asset is Shenzhen, a highly innovative “special economic zone” boasting a dynamic capital market and a tradition of experimentation with private-sector-driven job creation and integration into global supply chains.
And many countries can improve the efficiency of food value chains considerably, such as by mechanizing agriculture.
Conventional measures, instead of taking into account cross-border production chains, simply take the sum of a country’s production and net commodity imports to determine its level of consumption.
Global Finance’s Supply-Chain RevolutionHONG KONG – In March 2011, the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan halted production of key components on which many global supply chains depend.
The sudden disruption of these essential materials from the production process forced a reassessment of how these supply chains function.
Financial supply chains and those in the manufacturing sector share three key features – architecture, feedback mechanisms, and processes – and their robustness and efficiency depend upon how these components interact.
In today’s financial architecture, as with other supply chains, interdependent networks tend to concentrate in powerful hubs.
Open feedback mechanisms ensure a supply chain’s ability to respond to a changing environment, but, in the case of financial supply chains, feedback mechanisms can amplify shocks until the whole system blows up.
Finally, the processes within supply chains, and the feedback interactions between them, can make the system greater or smaller than the sum of its parts.
Like manufacturing supply chains in the wake of the Japanese disruption, financial supply chains face formidable pressures to re-engineer and adapt as the global economic balance shifts towards emerging markets.
The winning financial supply chains of the future will instill confidence that they offer safe, stable, and efficient services to the most clients.
Just as Steve Jobs of Apple transformed the computer industry through lifestyle products and highly reliable, user-friendly, and “cool” services, financial institutions will have to introduce new value chains that create confidence by adapting to the growing needs of new markets.
Indeed, in the United States and across Europe, vertically integrated value chains controlled by large companies are already being challenged by new consumer-orchestrated value ecosystems, which allow consumers to design, build, market, distribute, and trade goods and services among themselves, eliminating the need for intermediaries.
In order to survive, these established companies will need to reinvent themselves as frugal enterprises that integrate digitally empowered “prosumers” into their value chains and strive to address market needs in a more eco-efficient and cost-effective way.
Notwithstanding its renowned software industry, India plays little part in the production chains that underpin Asia’s regional trade patterns.
As I pointed out in October, British manufacturing supply chains are so deeply integrated with those of continental Europe that they could not survive the sudden establishment of customs and other checks on the British border.
The same would hold true for Britain’s goods only afterthe country disentangles itself from the web of European supply chains.
And other countries – tightly linked to China through global supply chains – may well impose countervailing tariffs of their own.
Nor has it built the kind of seamless supply chains that funnel massive trade flows through North America.
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