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2024
Antonio Andreoni, Keun Lee & Sofia To...
Global Value Chains, ‘In-Out-In’ Industrialization, and the Global...
Since the emergence and diffusion of regional and global value chains, production-chain development has always played a key role in shaping countries’ structural t...
2024
Jan Grumiller, Hannes Grohs, Werner R...
Reconciling Efficiency, Resilience and Sustainability: Global Value Ch...
In this article, we aim at making both a conceptual as well as a policy contribution to this debate. In sections 2 and 3, the interlinkages and trade-offs between GV...
2024
Christoph Kubitza, Vijesh V. Krishna,...
Labor Displacement in Agriculture: Evidence from Oil Palm Expansion in...
We analyze the labor market effects of oil palm cultivation among smallholder farmers in Indonesia. Oil palm requires less labor per unit of land than alternative cr...
2024
Juliane Lang, Stefano Ponte, Thando V...
Linking power and inequality in global value chains...
There is increasing interest in the study of globalization on whether the emergence and consolidation of global value chains (GVCs) have exacerbated inequalities wit...
2024
Stefano Ponte, Jennifer Blair, Mark D...
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research ag...
Power is a central, but largely undertheorized, concept for scholars of global value chains (GVCs). In this introduction to a special issue on power and inequality i...
2024
Federico Colozza, Carlo Pietrobelli, ...
Do global value chains spread knowledge and pollution? evidence from E...
In this paper we investigate the relationship between participation in global value chains and the environment from a spatial perspective. By drawing on an original ...
2024
Stefan Pahl, Marcel P. Timmer, Reitze...
Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for ...
Using newly developed data, the evolution of job and productivity growth in global value chains (GVCs) is analyzed for 25 low- and middle-income countries. GVC jobs ...
2024
Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu
Global Value Chains, Job Creation, and Job Destruction among Firms in ...
Extant studies suggest that firms’ engagement in global value chain (GVC) trade is associated with productivity gains that result from the continual reallocation o...
2024
Caio Torres Mazzi, Gideon Ndubuisi, E...
Learning-by-exporting in South Africa: The influence of global value c...
Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009–2017, this paper investigates how trade related to the global value ch...
2024
Sasidaran Gopalan, Sébastien Miroudo...
Global value chains and firm survivability during the COVID-19 pandemi...
Firms participating in global value chains (GVCs) were not only exposed to significant shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic but also turned out to be more resilient. ...
