This paper analyses the role of services in international trade through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). Services account for more than 70% of world GDP but only for around 20% of world trade in balance of payments terms. In value added terms, accounting for services embodied in exported...

Services and development: context and perspectives -- Contextualizing services in the world economy / Low and Hassani -- Services and development: priorities for reform / Findlay -- Gainfully linking into global value chains: a middle-income country's perspective / Abrenica -- Who governs global...

Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occurring in enclaves with little connection to the broader economy or society; or it can leverage the current wave of growth, enabled and accelerated...

Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occurring in enclaves with little connection to the broader economy or society; or it can leverage the current wave of growth, enabled and accelerated...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Contributing Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Overview -- Key Takeaways -- Current Conditions and Challenges -- Drivers and Enablers -- Barriers, Threats, and Challenges -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1...

This paper addresses two questions namely, first, the extent to which the very participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) has penalised labour as a globally insourced production input, and, second, what happened to between-occupation functional inequality. We combine input-output (I-O) tables...