Global Value Chains and Development
Redefining the Contours of 21st Century Capitalism

Studies conceptual foundations of GVC analysis, twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', and detailed cases of emerging economies.

Gary Gereffi (Author)

9781108471947, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 January 2019

494 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 3.9 cm, 0.74 kg

'Overall, Global Value Chains and Development is an attractive read by the world's leading thinker on GVCs. It will particularly appeal to scholars and development practitioners who are both interested in a historical perspective of the GVC framework and in the new development policy views that it has to offer.' Ari Van Assche, Journal of Economic Geography

Globalization has transformed how nations, firms and workers compete in the international economy over the past half century. This book by Gary Gereffi, one of the founders of the global value chains (GVC) framework, traces the emergence of arguably the most influential approach used to analyze globalization and its impacts. It studies the conceptual foundations of GVC analysis, the twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', along with detailed case studies of China, Mexico and other emerging economies as main beneficiaries of export-oriented industrialization, and addresses potential solutions to the deleterious impact of globalization on workers and communities.

Foreword Pascal Lamy
1. The emergence of global value chains: ideas, institutions and research communities
Part I. Foundations of the Global Value Chain Framework: 2. The organization of buyer-driven global commodity chains: how US retailers shape overseas production networks
3. International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain
4. The governance of global value chains with John Humphrey and Timothy J. Sturgeon
Part II. Expanding the Governance and Upgrading Dimensions in GVCs: 5. The global economy: organization, governance, and development
6. Local clusters in global chains: the causes and consequences of export dynamism in Torreon's blue jeans industry with Jennifer Bair
7. Development models and industrial upgrading in China and Mexico
8. Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: a new paradigm for a changing world with Stephanie Barrientos and Arianna Rossi
9. Regulation and economic globalization: prospects and limits of private governance with Frederick Mayer
10. Economic and social upgrading in global value chains: why governance matters with Joonkoo Lee
Part III. Policy Issues and Challenges: 11. Global value chain analysis: a primer (second edition) with Karina Fernandez-Stark
12. Global value chains, development and emerging economies
13. Risks and opportunities of participation in global value chains with Xubei Luo
14. Global value chains in a post-Washington consensus world
15. Protectionism and global value chains
Index.

Subject Areas: Industry & industrial studies [KN], International economics [KCL], Labour economics [KCF], Microeconomics [KCC], Economics [KC], Development studies [GTF]