The COVID-19 crisis is unique in many respects and, as the IMF (2021, p. 43) puts it: "a crisis like no other". A global economic contraction occurred that was unprecedented in its speed and depth. Support packages were put together in some parts of the world that also dwarfed anything seen up...

In traditional trade theory, it is generally assumed that the development of export-oriented industries in the Global South can create the conditions for technological spillover effects, productivity increases and social welfare gains. However, based on the results of comparative case studies in...

Die Integration des Globalen Südens in die Wertschöpfungsketten multinationaler Konzerne ist zu einem dominanten entwicklungsökonomischen Paradigma geworden. Die AutorInnen zeigen anhand vergleichender Branchen- und Länder-Fallstudien, dass die damit verbundene Erwartung wirtschaftlicher...

Die Integration des Globalen Südens in die Wertschöpfungsketten multinationaler Konzerne ist zu einem dominanten entwicklungsökonomischen Paradigma geworden. Die AutorInnen zeigen anhand vergleichender Branchen- und Länder-Fallstudien, dass die damit verbundene Erwartung wirtschaftlicher...

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...

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...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Governance, Rent-seeking and Upgrading in Global Value Chains -- Part I: Interdisciplinary Theoretical Contributions – Framing The Debate -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Globalization and Value Systems: What Gains for Developing Countries? -- Chapter 3. Global Value Chains...