Supply Chain Management can Mitigate Poverty - Evidence from Madagascar

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, San Diego State University (College of Business Administration), course: Global Supply Chain Management, language: English, abstract: Are global supply chains a threat or an opportunity for developing countries? Does globalization rather exploit poor farmers or does it have beneficial effects? This paper addresses this questions and shows recent evidence how the poor in Madagascar could benefit from integration in global supply chains.