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Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade
Borin, Alessandro - 2019
The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation
de Soyres, Francois - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
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Economic Upgrading Through Global Value Chain Participation : Which Policies Increase the Value Added Gains?
Kummritz, Victor - 2018
The emergence of global value chains has opened up new ways to achieve development and industrialization. However, new evidence shows that not all countries have gained from participating in global value chains, and that country-specific characteristics matter for economic upgrading in global...
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Services Trade and Global Value Chains
Heuser, Cecilia - 2018
Services play a role in global value chains in many ways, similar to goods. But services deserve special attention …-border transactions in services, reveal a high and growing share of services in trade in value added across countries and industries …. Although international transactions in services that take place through foreign investment are difficult to measure, their …
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The Extent of Engagement in Global Value Chains by Firms in Rwanda
Frazer, Garth - 2019
Using administrative data for an exhaustive sample of formally registered firms, reveals that the engagement of Rwandan firms in global value chains (GVCs) is remarkably limited. The paper documents several patterns of firm-level exports and compares firm characteristics between exporters and...
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GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil
Hollweg, Claire Honore - 2018
, and services sectors have been important for growing the indirect value added in global value chain?oriented exports. A …
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The Offshore Services Value Chain : Developing Countries and the Crisis
Gereffi, G. - 2017
This paper analyzes the recent evolution and impact of the global economic crisis on the offshore services industry …. Using a global value chains framework, the authors classify the offshore services sector in a comprehensive set of general … and industry-specific activities that correspond to different segments and stages in the value-adding process for services …
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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam, rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2020
The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...
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Jobs in Global Value Chains : New Evidence for Four African Countries in International Perspective
Pahl, Stefan - 2019
What is the potential for job growth in Africa under participation in global value chains (GVCs)? In this study the concept of GVC jobs is introduced which tracks the number of jobs associated with GVC production of goods. A novel decomposition approach is used to account for GVC jobs by three...
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