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    Backward and Forward Integration Along Global Value Chains

    Both backward (upstream) and forward (downstream) vertical integration strategies shape the organization of global value chains (GVCs). Yet, many studies make the unrealistic assumption that integration decisi...

    Davide Del Prete, Armando Rungi in Review of Industrial Organization (2020)

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    Food and Agriculture Global Value Chains: New Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

    In the past twenty years, production has been increasingly unbundled and shared across many countries at different levels of development. The common perception is that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has neither been...

    Jean Balié, Davide Del Prete in Governance for Structural Transformation i… (2019)

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    Global value chains participation and productivity gains for North African firms

    The emergence of global value chains (GVCs) has provided some firms the opportunity to internationalize by specializing in the production of specific inputs or tasks along the chain, with a direct impact on a ...

    Davide Del Prete, Giorgia Giovannetti, Enrico Marvasi in Review of World Economics (2017)

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    Neutrophils in innate and adaptive immunity

    Neutrophils have long been viewed as short-lived cells crucial for the elimination of extracellular pathogens, possessing a limited role in the orchestration of the immune response. This dogma has been challen...

    Sébastien Jaillon, Maria Rosaria Galdiero, Davide Del Prete in Seminars in Immunopathology (2013)