Economic and social upgrading through professional and supporting services

Lessons from the shrimp value chain in El Salvador

Bibliographic Data

ID13037757
AuthorsNahuel Oddone (0000-0002-3120-3914, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, corresponding author), Ramón Padilla-Pérez (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Year2016
Volume6
Issue1
Pages72-95
Publication date2016-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegions & Cohesion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2152-906X • E-ISSN: 2152-9078
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/reco.2016.060104
OpenAlexW2342511881
LanguageEN
References cited9

Economic and social development requires major structural changes to transform the composition of output, employment and international trade (ECLAC, 2012). Through rising productivity in existing activities and by moving towards more complex and technology-intensive sectors and processes, structural change is expected to lead to higher long-term economic growth, increased export competitiveness and well-paid jobs. In the past two decades, the conceptual framework of value chains has been widely disseminated as a tool to study structural change at the micro-level (Gereffi and Korzeniewicz, 1994; Gereffi et al., 2005; Humphrey and Schmitz, 2012; OCDE, 2013; Padilla-Pérez, 2014; Stumpo and Rivas, 2013)

Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Fishery · Productivity · Shrimp · Value (mathematics · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

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