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A regional production network in a predatory state: export-oriented manufacturing at the margins of the law

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  • Regine A. Spector

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As middle-income countries have grown their manufacturing sectors considerably over recent decades, attention has turned to countries that fall at the bottom of the industrial ladder. In such countries, challenges related to corruption combined with intensely competitive pressures from China and other countries appear to preclude possibilities for state leaders and bureaucracies to engineer industrial growth. Drawing upon an original survey of 229 apparel shop owners in Kyrgyzstan and dozens of interviews, this article analyzes the creation of a regional Eurasian production network in a country where we would least expect to see manufacturing dynamism. I adopt an everyday international political economy approach to the study of production networks in this country – considered to have a challenging business environment with high corruption – focusing on the ways in which shop owners and other intermediaries understand and relate to state bureaucrats at different nodes of the network. Doing so expands our understanding of the varieties of pathways to contemporary export-oriented production, including ones that emerge at the margins of the law.

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  • Regine A. Spector, 2018. "A regional production network in a predatory state: export-oriented manufacturing at the margins of the law," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(2), pages 169-189, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:25:y:2018:i:2:p:169-189
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1428905
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    1. Castañeda Dower, Paul & Gerber, Theodore P. & Weber, Shlomo, 2022. "Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(4), pages 997-1018.
    2. Prema‐chandra Athukorala & Hal Hill, 2023. "Trade policy in a ‘double‐landlocked’ transition economy: Kyrgyzstan," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(12), pages 3455-3471, December.
    3. Prema-chandra Athukorala, 2018. "Export structure and performance in a landlocked transitional economy: The case of Kyrgyz Republic," Departmental Working Papers 2018-24, The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.

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