Global Value Chains, Development and Emerging Economies

Gereffi, G

2015-12-03T16:37:54Z

2015-11-27

In recent decades, profound changes in the structure of the global economy have reshaped global production and trade and have altered the organization of industries and national economies into global value chains (GVCs). As GVCs became global in scope, more intermediate goods were traded across borders, and more imported parts and components were integrated into exports. In 2009, world exports of intermediate goods exceeded the combined export values of final and capital goods for the first time. New governance structures reinforce the organizational consolidation occurring within GVCs and the geographic concentration associated with the growing prominence of emerging economies as key economic and political actors. Emerging economies are playing significant and diverse roles in GVCs. During the 2000s, they were simultaneously major exporters of intermediate and final manufactured goods (China, South Korea, and Mexico) and primary products (Brazil, Russia, and South Africa). However, market growth in emerging economies has also led to shifting end markets in GVCs, as more trade has occurred between developing economies (often referred to as South-South trade in the literature), especially since the 2008–09 economic recession. China has been the focal point of both trends: it is the world’s leading exporter of manufactured goods and the world’s largest importer of many raw materials, thereby contributing to the primary product export boom.

http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5885

UNIDO/UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series #2015-047

1871-9872

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10990

Maastricht Economic and Social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT)

Global Value Chains, Development and Emerging Economies

Global Value Chains; Governance Structures; Economic Upgrading; Social Upgrading; Emerging Economies; Industrial Policy; China

Global Value Chains, Development and Emerging Economies

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http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5885

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United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU‐MERIT)

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Duke

Global Health Institute

Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Sociology

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

University Institutes and Centers

Maastricht, The Netherlands

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