The reorganization of the production process in the past two to three decades has led to the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) where the production chain is spread across different geographies. This has in turn led to increased foreign value-added content in each country’s exports as...

Cross-border production sharing has intensified in recent decades, leading to the formation and spread of global value chains (GVC). Using a dataset containing more than 150 countries over 1990-2018, our paper tries to identify what drives backward GVC participation and forward GVC participation...

The importance of services inputs in enhancing manufacturing productivity and competitiveness has been well documented in the literature on global value chains and economic development. In this context, we investigate the nature and strength of the interlinkage between the services and...