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  • Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market

    Theoretical Insights, Empirical Evidence, and Economic Policy Recommendations for Germany

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  • Outsourcing Economics

    Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

    Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and ... Read more

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  • Making Global Value Chains Work for Development

    Series series Trade and Development
    Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus become more competitive in agriculture, manufacturing and services. This is a paradigm shift from the ... Read more

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  • Making Global Value Chains Work for Development

    Series series Trade and Development
    Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus become more competitive in agriculture, manufacturing and services. This is a paradigm shift from the ... Read more

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  • Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub-Saharan Africa

    Local Spillovers and Competitiveness in Global Value Chains

    Series series Directions in Development
    Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the scope of global value chains (GVCs), whereby lead firms outsource parts of their production and services activities across complex international networks. FDI delivers important contributions including investment, employment, and foreign exchange. ... Read more

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