Report prepared for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development

Working Group on Linkages and Value Chains

by Tilman Altenburg, German Development Institute, July 2006 (rev. 9 January 2007).

This study serves several purposes, namely

- to discuss the analytical foundations of the concept, help to clarify terminology and discuss areas of overlap as well as conceptual distinctions between "value chain" and "linkage" approaches and related concepts in the field of private sector development;

- to examine the implications of the increasing coordination and globalization of value chains for pro-poor growth in developing countries;

- to identify strategies and interventions for value chain development in ways that contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction; and

- to identify questions for further discussion among the donor agencies involved.

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