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New Standards and Partnerships in Latin America: Implications for Small Producers and State Policy

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Business, Politics and Public Policy

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This chapter brings together two issues that until now have been discussed separately: the rise of new standards in global supply chains and development policy. It presents these issues in order to develop a perspective that argues for the promotion of policies and strategies that combine competitiveness with both inclusion and social equity by improving the productive capacities and wellbeing of small producers in Mexico and Central America. As these countries move away from the previous focus on the ‘Washington consensus’ strategy, the recent rise of supply chain standards and transnational corporation-non-governmental organization (TNC-NGO) partnerships can provide some lessons for thinking about how to advance social development policies.

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    José Carlos Marques (former Research Analyst in the Markets, Business and Regulation Programme) & Peter Utting (Deputy Director) (former Research Analyst in the Markets, Business and Regulation Programme) &  (Deputy Director)

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Perez-Aleman, P. (2010). New Standards and Partnerships in Latin America: Implications for Small Producers and State Policy. In: Marques, J.C., Utting, P. (eds) Business, Politics and Public Policy. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277243_12

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