Abstract: This chapter traces the genealogy of the concepts of value chain, supply chain, and their French equivalent filière, and of the analyses based on this concept. It aims at an improved understanding of their scope and limitations in view of the challenges confronting sustainable development. Initially conceived to help formulate and evaluate industrial policies in the North, and subsequently development policies in the South, the concept of filière encompasses a set of agents within an economic system with structural relationships that link the...
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Topics: 
Industrial organization
Economic system
Process management