Participation in global value chains and varieties of development patterns

Bruno Carballa Smichowski, Cédric Durand and Steven Knauss

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Abstract: This paper relates participation in global value chains (GVCs) to development patterns at the country level. It accounts for the diversity and interdependence of development through a crosscountry analysis for 51 countries between 1995 and 2008. We identify three patterns of socioeconomic development related to various degrees and modes of GVC participation: a social upgrading mirage, the reproduction of the core and unequal growth. This result is achieved thanks to the introduction of two new elements to the literature: first, the introduction of new macroeconomic indicators of GVC participation and economic gains that are explicitly based in a theoretically consistent definition of GVCs; second, the identification of a variety of interdependent development patterns related to GVC participation through the use of principal component analysis and cluster analysis.

Keywords: Global value chains; Development; PCA JEL classification: F63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09-20
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Published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2020, 2020, ⟨10.1093/cje/beaa046⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/cje/beaa046

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