Domestic value chains as stepping stones to global value chain integration

Measuring China’s Domestic Technological Upgrading in the Global Value Chain

Less developed countries (LDCs) usually undertake technology-poor slices in the spatial hierarchy of global value chain (GVC). This paper proposes a measure for domestic technological contents (DTC) for LDCs in the GVC, and calculates the DTCs for China as a whole and Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces separately. Two findings emerge from the calculation: the DTC indexes of China and Jiangsu kept ...

To “ Organizing the Global Value Chain ”

A. OPTIMAL DIVISION OF SURPLUS: SUFFICIENT CONDITION IN THIS SECTION, we show that the function β∗(j) in equation (15) of the main text, characterizing the optimal division of surplus at stage j, indeed satisfies a sufficient condition for the associated profit-maximization problem of the firm. Our approach builds on recasting this as a dynamic programming problem. Remember that in the main tex...

Global Value Chains and Africa’s Integration into the Global Economy 2.1 Global Value Chains: What They Are and How Africa Can Benefit

Global Value Chains , Economic Upgrading , and Gender

The Governance of Global Value Chains

This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature – transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning – to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chains are governed and change. These are: (1) the complexity o...