Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them acros

Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them acros

Global value chains (GVCs) powered the rapid expansion of international trade after 1990. Countries import not only for domestic consumption, but also to export

This book presents the results of a groundbreaking study on ‘spillovers’ of knowledge and technology from global value-chain oriented foreign direct investm

A collection of papers by some of the world's leading specialists on global value chains (GVCs). It examines how GVCs have evolved and the challenges they face