TY - THES A1 - Saberi, Sabiha T1 - Governance of Global Value Chains in the Garment Industry: The Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord N2 - Global Value Chain (GVC) is a process where production takes places in different countries for different stages. Many of the scholars have argued that social upgrading and economic upgrading is connected as a result of Global Value Chain. This paper is built on the concept of Global Value Chain (GVC) in terms of social upgrading. There will be discussion on the fire incident of “Tazreen Fashion” and another consecutive disaster named as “Rana Plaza Tragedy” and the aftermath of International Labor Organization intervention resulted in “The Bangladesh Accord: Fire and Building safety”. GVC upgrading framework approach and the link between framework and the Accord helps to understand the governance. The Accord analyzed as GVC upgrading tool and addresses the shortcomings of inspection and transparency issues. The paper aims at explain how much the accord has been conducted using GVC upgrading framework. This paper draws a conclusion by analyzing from publicly available secondary data. This paper tries to answer the progress rate of the investigation using descriptive statistics and testing hypothese. The paper aims to shed a light on it and suggests insight after the expiration of the Accord in 2021. KW - ILO KW - RMG KW - Global value chains KW - Global product network KW - Descriptive statistics KW - Progress rate KW - Analysis KW - Effectiveness Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-18072 ER - TY - THES A1 - Bayrak, Onur T1 - Monetary policy and its impact on exchange rates and foreign trade in Türkiye within the last decade N2 - After having overcome the effects of the Global Financial Crisis quickly, the price stability in Türkiye has deteriorated. In line with an expansionary course, the value of the Turkish lira depreciated and price levels started rising. Therefore, this paper will focus on the impact of monetary policy on exchange rates and foreign trade in Türkiye since 2012. For this purpose, the Mundell-Fleming model is introduced, which is a short-run macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of fiscal and monetary policies under different exchange rate regimes. Aggregated macro data on different indicators, which are representing key variables, is analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The empirical results were interpreted and discussed in line with the underlying model. The main findings of the paper suggest that Turkish monetary policy had a negative impact on exchange rates and thus on trade, especially since 2017 after the change of governmental system. KW - Monetary policy KW - Exchange rates KW - Foreign trade KW - Descriptive statistics KW - Türkiye Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17090 ER -