Countries' positions in the international global value networks: Centrality and economic performance.

ABSTRACT: The international exchange of goods and services is increasingly organised along global value chains in which the various production stages are carried out at many different locations all over the world. A country can be seen as holding a central position in global trade to the extent that it is involved in a large number of economic transactions with alternative potential suppliers and has a wide access to different important markets. However, the centrality of countries' positions in the international production of goods and services may vary according to the specific stages of the production process that countries occupy. Here we adopt a network-based perspective, and propose a novel three-faceted measure of centrality that captures countries' distinct roles at the upstream, midstream,

SUBMITTER: Cingolani I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6214273 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature