Rhys Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhys Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhys |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation
Structural transformation is among the core questions in development economics, but in recent decades, the discipline has shifted its focus away from production and transformation in favour of analyses on exchange, growth and productivity. Yet, the structural transformation question remains central, and needs to be confronted with the main changes in the global economic and political landscape, such as the emergence of the Belt and Road Initiativ…
China's Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: What has Changed
When China invited the Latin American countries to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative, it fuelled expectations of a much closer and more productive relationship with the region. In practice, however, there is little evidence that this was happening even before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The article shows that neither the policy statements by China nor the trends in economic relations indicate a substantive change in Sino–Lati…
How China Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America
The Impact of Chinese Import Penetration on the South African Manufacturing Sector
This article uses a Chenery-type decomposition and econometric estimation to evaluate the impact of Chinese trade on production and employment in South African manufacturing from 1992 to 2010. The results suggest that increased import penetration from China caused South African manufacturing output to be 5 per cent lower in 2010 than it otherwise would have been. The estimated reduction of total employment in manufacturing as a result of trade wi…
Commentary
Is Chinese Competition Causing Deindustrialization in Brazil
There has been a lively debate in Brazil in recent years, involving sectors of business, the labor movement, and academics, over deindustrialization and the future of the manufacturing sector. This is often linked to the growing relation between Brazil and China, which is now the country's most significant trade partner. Brazil has experienced relative deindustrialization in the sense of a declining share of the manufacturing sector in gross dome…
One Thing Leads to Another: Promoting Industrialisation by Making the Most of the Commodity Boom in Sub-Saharan Africa
China and Brazil: Economic Impacts of a Growing Relationship
The paper analyses the economic impacts of China's re-emergence on Brazil, looking at both the direct effects of China on Brazil in terms of bilateral trade and investment flows and the indirect effects through increased competition in export markets for manufactured goods and higher world prices for primary commodities. Despite a surge in Chinese FDI in Brazil in 2010, the main driver of bilateral relations is trade. While bilateral trade has gr…
Latin America and China—a new dependency
Economic relations between China and Latin America have grown rapidly over the past decade.The paper documents the growth of trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and other financial flows between China and Latin America and identifies the interests of China in the region as a source of raw materials, a market for exports of manufactured goods and an area of diplomatic competition with Taiwan.It points to the asymmetric nature of the relationshi…
The “China effect” on commodity prices and Latin American export earnings
The commodity boom between 2002 and 2008 played an important role in increasing export earnings from Latin America. Growing demand from China for primary products was one factor stimulating the boom. While the direct effects of the growth of exports from Latin America to China have been extensively explored, the indirect impact of higher Chinese demand for commodities on global commodity prices has received less attention. This paper estimates th…
China's Global Expansion and Latin America
China's rapid growth and increased integration with the global economy over the past three decades have significant economic impacts and political implications for Latin America. This paper reviews the debate over whether these impacts have on balance been positive or negative for the region. It argues that those who emphasise the positive economic impacts of China have been over-optimistic and underplay some of the negative impacts associated wi…
Trade, Technology and Employment in South Africa
South Africa has become increasingly integrated with the global economy since the early 1990s and particularly after the ending of apartheid. However this has not been associated with increased employment and high levels of unemployment are a major economic and social problem. The paper considers the impact of trade and technological change on both the level and skill composition of manufacturing employment. First a Chenery-type decomposition ana…
The Impact of China on Latin America and the Caribbean
Contrasting perspectives on globalization and labour in South Africa
The academic analysis of the labour market impacts of globalization has been dominated by neoclassical approaches both in the extensive work on developed countries and the more limited, but growing literature on developing countries. However, in many developing countries the positive impacts predicted for workers in (unskilled) labour-abundant economies have not been observed. This suggests that heterodox approaches may have an important contribu…
The Asian Drivers and Sub-Saharan Africa
Globalisation of Production, Employment and Poverty: Three Macro-Meso-Micro Studies
Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and poverty
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a major focus of interest for development practitioners in recent years. While development NGOs have been critical of voluntary corporate initiatives, official development agencies have taken a more positive view and in some cases encouraged CSR. This article locates the growth of CSR in the context of global deregulation since the early 1980s, highlighting the key drivers that have led to its adop…
Why has employment not grown more quickly in Vietnam
A paradox of Vietnam’s economic performance in the 1990s has been that despite rapid economic growth, extensive economic reforms, increased openness and significant reductions in poverty, the rate of employment growth has been disappointing. Conventional explanations of the slow growth of employment emphasize the incomplete nature of the economic reform process emphasizing three key areas – trade policy, the role of state-owned enterprises and la…
International and Comparative Industrial Relations
Structural Adjustment and Bolivian Industry
Trade Liberalisation in Latin America: The Bolivian Case1
Bolivia adopted a drastic trade liberalisation in 1985 as part of its neo- liberal New Economic Policy. The paper discusses the theoretical arguments which underlie such a policy and the main neo-structuralist criticisms. It then looks at the effects of liberalisation on resource allocation, productivity growth and export performance. It concludes that the results have been disappointing which gives rise to some scepticism concerning the advantag…
Trade Liberalization and Export Performance in Bolivia
One of the anticipated gains from the trade liberalization policies adopted by many Latin American countries in recent years is improved export performance. In this article, the arguments on which this expectation is based are reviewed and the impact of trade liberalization on Bolivian manufactured exports analysed. The conclusion is that improved export performance is largely the result of a more realistic and more stable real exchange rate afte…
Hi-Tech for Industrial Development: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience in Electronics and Automation
Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States
Learning from the Gang: Are There Lessons for Latin America from East Asia
The East Asian Gang of Four', Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, have in recent years been held up as a model of development for Latin America. Attempts have been made to draw lessons for the Latin American countries. In view of the superior economic performance of the East Asian countries, particularly in the 1980s, in terms of growth of GDP, industrial output and manufactured exports, employment, income distribution, inflation and de…
The Impact of China on Latin America and the Caribbean
Divisions over the international division of labour
Interpretations of the new international division of labour can be divided between those which emphasise the sphere of exchange, those which focus on the sphere of production, and those which are based on an analysis of the circuits of capital in the internationalization of capital. This article reviews these different approaches to the NIDL and discusses their implications for socialist strategies
Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and poverty
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a major focus of interest for development practitioners in recent years. While development NGOs have been critical of voluntary corporate initiatives, official development agencies have taken a more positive view and in some cases encouraged CSR. This article locates the growth of CSR in the context of global deregulation since the early 1980s, highlighting the key drivers that have led to its adop…
The Political Economy of Industrialization: A Comparison of Latin American and East Asian Newly Industrializing Countries
The paper analyses the industrial performance of two East Asian (South Korea and Taiwan) and three Latin American (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) newly industrializing countries. It argues that the better performance in East Asia is not due simply to differences in trade orientation or the degree of state intervention, but rather to the effectiveness of intervention. This is explained in terms of the relative autonomy of the state and the structur…
Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States
The “China effect” on commodity prices and Latin American export earnings
The commodity boom between 2002 and 2008 played an important role in increasing export earnings from Latin America. Growing demand from China for primary products was one factor stimulating the boom. While the direct effects of the growth of exports from Latin America to China have been extensively explored, the indirect impact of higher Chinese demand for commodities on global commodity prices has received less attention. This paper estimates th…
Latin America and China—a new dependency
Economic relations between China and Latin America have grown rapidly over the past decade.The paper documents the growth of trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and other financial flows between China and Latin America and identifies the interests of China in the region as a source of raw materials, a market for exports of manufactured goods and an area of diplomatic competition with Taiwan.It points to the asymmetric nature of the relationshi…
China's Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: What has Changed
When China invited the Latin American countries to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative, it fuelled expectations of a much closer and more productive relationship with the region. In practice, however, there is little evidence that this was happening even before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The article shows that neither the policy statements by China nor the trends in economic relations indicate a substantive change in Sino–Lati…
Is Chinese Competition Causing Deindustrialization in Brazil
There has been a lively debate in Brazil in recent years, involving sectors of business, the labor movement, and academics, over deindustrialization and the future of the manufacturing sector. This is often linked to the growing relation between Brazil and China, which is now the country's most significant trade partner. Brazil has experienced relative deindustrialization in the sense of a declining share of the manufacturing sector in gross dome…
One Thing Leads to Another: Promoting Industrialisation by Making the Most of the Commodity Boom in Sub-Saharan Africa
Learning from the Gang: Are There Lessons for Latin America from East Asia
The East Asian Gang of Four', Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, have in recent years been held up as a model of development for Latin America. Attempts have been made to draw lessons for the Latin American countries. In view of the superior economic performance of the East Asian countries, particularly in the 1980s, in terms of growth of GDP, industrial output and manufactured exports, employment, income distribution, inflation and de…
China's Global Expansion and Latin America
China's rapid growth and increased integration with the global economy over the past three decades have significant economic impacts and political implications for Latin America. This paper reviews the debate over whether these impacts have on balance been positive or negative for the region. It argues that those who emphasise the positive economic impacts of China have been over-optimistic and underplay some of the negative impacts associated wi…
Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World
Journal Article Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World Get access Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World. By RHYS JENKINS. (London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Pp. x+229. £28.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0 4J6 73340 9, 0416733506.) Robin Murray Robin Murray Institute of Development Studies, University of Su…
The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation
Structural transformation is among the core questions in development economics, but in recent decades, the discipline has shifted its focus away from production and transformation in favour of analyses on exchange, growth and productivity. Yet, the structural transformation question remains central, and needs to be confronted with the main changes in the global economic and political landscape, such as the emergence of the Belt and Road Initiativ…
China and Brazil: Economic Impacts of a Growing Relationship
The paper analyses the economic impacts of China's re-emergence on Brazil, looking at both the direct effects of China on Brazil in terms of bilateral trade and investment flows and the indirect effects through increased competition in export markets for manufactured goods and higher world prices for primary commodities. Despite a surge in Chinese FDI in Brazil in 2010, the main driver of bilateral relations is trade. While bilateral trade has gr…
The Asian Drivers and Sub-Saharan Africa
Why has employment not grown more quickly in Vietnam
A paradox of Vietnam’s economic performance in the 1990s has been that despite rapid economic growth, extensive economic reforms, increased openness and significant reductions in poverty, the rate of employment growth has been disappointing. Conventional explanations of the slow growth of employment emphasize the incomplete nature of the economic reform process emphasizing three key areas – trade policy, the role of state-owned enterprises and la…
Trade Liberalization and Export Performance in Bolivia
One of the anticipated gains from the trade liberalization policies adopted by many Latin American countries in recent years is improved export performance. In this article, the arguments on which this expectation is based are reviewed and the impact of trade liberalization on Bolivian manufactured exports analysed. The conclusion is that improved export performance is largely the result of a more realistic and more stable real exchange rate afte…
Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalisation of Capital and the Third World
Structural Adjustment and Bolivian Industry
The Reverberatory Furnace with Coal Fuel, 1612-1712
(1933). The Reverberatory Furnace with Coal Fuel, 1612-1712. Transactions of the Newcomen Society: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 67-81
Globalisation of Production, Employment and Poverty: Three Macro-Meso-Micro Studies
Industriai Policy in Nicaragua: A Case Study of the Textile Industry
This article examines the textile industry as a case study of some of the problems facing industrial policy in the Nicaraguan context. These are seen as deriving from two main sources: the historical legacy of the pre?revolutionary period and the external military and economic pressures on Nicaragua today. After discussing the structure of the textile industry, its economic significance and its importance within the overall development strategy, …
The Reverberatory Furnace with Coal Fuel, 1612-1712
(1933). The Reverberatory Furnace with Coal Fuel, 1612-1712. Transactions of the Newcomen Society: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 67-81
Technology
The export performance of multinational corporations in Mexican industry
The role of multinational corporations in exporting manufactures from underdeveloped countries has been held up as a major contribution by supporters of the multinationals and played down by their critics. Three aspects of export behaviour are analysed: the share of output exported, the destination of exports and the import content of exports. It is shown that in most sectors locally owned firms have a greater propensity to export than foreign su…
Divisions over the international division of labour
Interpretations of the new international division of labour can be divided between those which emphasise the sphere of exchange, those which focus on the sphere of production, and those which are based on an analysis of the circuits of capital in the internationalization of capital. This article reviews these different approaches to the NIDL and discusses their implications for socialist strategies
Third world multinationals: Rhetoric or reality
Third World Multinationals: The Rise of Foreign Investment from Developing Countries. By Louis T. Wells, Jr. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 206. £22.50. ISBN 0 262 23113 1. The New Multinationals: The Spread of Third World Enterprises. By Sanjaya Lall in collaboration with Edward Chen, Jorge Katz, Bernado Kosacoff and Annibal Villela. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Pp. xv + 268. £13.50. ISBN 0 471 9041 1
Transnational corporations and Third World consumption: Implications of competitive strategies
Industriai Policy in Nicaragua: A Case Study of the Textile Industry
This article examines the textile industry as a case study of some of the problems facing industrial policy in the Nicaraguan context. These are seen as deriving from two main sources: the historical legacy of the pre?revolutionary period and the external military and economic pressures on Nicaragua today. After discussing the structure of the textile industry, its economic significance and its importance within the overall development strategy, …
Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World
Journal Article Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World Get access Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World. By RHYS JENKINS. (London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Pp. x+229. £28.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0 4J6 73340 9, 0416733506.) Robin Murray Robin Murray Institute of Development Studies, University of Su…
Transnational Corporations and the Latin American Automobile Industry
Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalisation of Capital and the Third World
Transnational Corporations and Uneven Development: The Internationalization of Capital and the Third World
Examines transnational corporations and their effect on local labour and capital, and considers the future prospects for their involvement in the Third World
Comparing foreign subsidiaries and local firms in LDCS: Theoretical issues and empirical evidence
The article reviews the empirical evidence on the comparative behaviour of foreign subsidiaries and locally‐owned firms in four main areas which have a bearing on development: technology, marketing, foreign trade and wages. It is argued that the conventional cross‐section analysis of the behaviour of the different types of firm is a poor guide to the impact of foreign investment on host countries, and that longitudinal industry studies are a more…
Learning from the Gang: Are There Lessons for Latin America from East Asia
The East Asian Gang of Four', Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, have in recent years been held up as a model of development for Latin America. Attempts have been made to draw lessons for the Latin American countries. In view of the superior economic performance of the East Asian countries, particularly in the 1980s, in terms of growth of GDP, industrial output and manufactured exports, employment, income distribution, inflation and de…
The Political Economy of Industrialization: A Comparison of Latin American and East Asian Newly Industrializing Countries
The paper analyses the industrial performance of two East Asian (South Korea and Taiwan) and three Latin American (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) newly industrializing countries. It argues that the better performance in East Asia is not due simply to differences in trade orientation or the degree of state intervention, but rather to the effectiveness of intervention. This is explained in terms of the relative autonomy of the state and the structur…
Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States
Hi-Tech for Industrial Development: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience in Electronics and Automation
Trade Liberalization and Export Performance in Bolivia
One of the anticipated gains from the trade liberalization policies adopted by many Latin American countries in recent years is improved export performance. In this article, the arguments on which this expectation is based are reviewed and the impact of trade liberalization on Bolivian manufactured exports analysed. The conclusion is that improved export performance is largely the result of a more realistic and more stable real exchange rate afte…
Structural Adjustment and Bolivian Industry
Trade Liberalisation in Latin America: The Bolivian Case1
Bolivia adopted a drastic trade liberalisation in 1985 as part of its neo- liberal New Economic Policy. The paper discusses the theoretical arguments which underlie such a policy and the main neo-structuralist criticisms. It then looks at the effects of liberalisation on resource allocation, productivity growth and export performance. It concludes that the results have been disappointing which gives rise to some scepticism concerning the advantag…
Why has employment not grown more quickly in Vietnam
A paradox of Vietnam’s economic performance in the 1990s has been that despite rapid economic growth, extensive economic reforms, increased openness and significant reductions in poverty, the rate of employment growth has been disappointing. Conventional explanations of the slow growth of employment emphasize the incomplete nature of the economic reform process emphasizing three key areas – trade policy, the role of state-owned enterprises and la…
International and Comparative Industrial Relations
Globalisation of Production, Employment and Poverty: Three Macro-Meso-Micro Studies
Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and poverty
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a major focus of interest for development practitioners in recent years. While development NGOs have been critical of voluntary corporate initiatives, official development agencies have taken a more positive view and in some cases encouraged CSR. This article locates the growth of CSR in the context of global deregulation since the early 1980s, highlighting the key drivers that have led to its adop…
Contrasting perspectives on globalization and labour in South Africa
The academic analysis of the labour market impacts of globalization has been dominated by neoclassical approaches both in the extensive work on developed countries and the more limited, but growing literature on developing countries. However, in many developing countries the positive impacts predicted for workers in (unskilled) labour-abundant economies have not been observed. This suggests that heterodox approaches may have an important contribu…
The Asian Drivers and Sub-Saharan Africa
Economics (29 works) · Political science (26 works) · Global trade and economics (17 works) · Business (15 works) · International trade (15 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Latin Americans (12 works) · China (11 works) · International economics (8 works)