Over the past decades, the concept of global value chains (GVCs) has become an important analytical landmark within different strands of social sciences for making sense of the increasingly spatially and organizationally fragmented international system of production. The question arises what...

In the last decades in particular, national governments as well as development agencies and international organizations have increasingly turned to participation in global value chains (GVCs) as a development strategy. However, whether the positive development effects of integration are large...

This chapter serves to develop a classification of economic and social upgrading trajectories according to the theoretical approach introduced in the first chapter of this book, and to present empirical results according to this framework. Based on this classification and theoretical debate...

The COVID-19 crisis is unique in many respects, and as the IMF (World economic outlook April 2021. International Monetary Fund, p. 43, 2021a) puts it: "a crisis like no other." A global economic contraction occurred that was unprecedented in its speed and depth. Support packages were put...