The Chinese Cashmere Industry: A Global Value Chain Analysis
Scott Waldron,
Colin Brown and
Adam M. Komarek
Development Policy Review, 2014, vol. 32, issue 5, 589-610
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Growth and internationalisation of the Chinese economy have reconfigured the global value chains of many commodities with important implications for industry and rural and regional development both in and outside China. This article analyses the chain for cashmere, all stages of which have gravitated to China, and the impacts on rural development, especially for herders in remote pastoral regions. Traditionally a high-value product, cashmere has become increasingly generic and adulterated over the past decade. More formal and closer integration of Chinese actors into the global industry and re-orienting policy from supply-side intervention to the enforcement of standards would enhance the competitiveness of Chinese cashmere in international fibre markets.
Date: 2014
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