by Chris Jordan | Nov 10, 2016 | Brazil, China, India, Labour Standards and Global Production Networks, Law Development and Finance in Rising Powers, South Africa
By Boni Sones, University of Cambridge We live in a globalised world and buy products produced by workers’ from all over the World. Increasingly consumers are demanding that those who produce our goods are employed on decent terms and conditions whether they work in...
by Chris Jordan | Oct 24, 2016 | China Goes Global, Governance in Global Biomedical Innovation, Innovation Systems Development in China and Russia
On 6-7 October 2016, the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and the ESRC Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures programme hosted a thematic workshop to discuss the roles of rising powers in shaping global innovation. Our policy brief summarises the findings...
by Chris Jordan | Oct 17, 2016 | China
By Corinna Braun-Munzinger The Rising Powers Study Group of the Development Studies Association (DSA) and the ESRC Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures programme jointly convened a full-day panel at the DSA annual conference in Oxford on 13 September, titled...
by Chris Jordan | Sep 29, 2016 | Bangladesh, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf Sinkovics, Samia Hoque
By Samia Hoque, Noemi Sinkovics and Rudolf Sinkovics In a recent article published in the European Journal of International Management, the authors explore the effects of international outsourcing without legally binding contracts on knowledge transfer and upgrading...
by Chris Jordan | Sep 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Many in Western countries think of emerging economies such as China and India as places with weak labour standards where workers are being exploited. This ignores changes on the ground in many ‘rising powers’ countries, such as China, India, South Africa and Brazil,...