Upgrading and inequality in global value chains: Challenges for inclusive and sustainable development

Toward inclusive green growth for sustainable development: A new perspective of labor market distortion

“…These results imply that labor market distortion hinders the upgrading of export trade by making it more dependent on labor‐intensive products and discouraging the shift to higher value‐added products and production chains. It has been proposed that export trade upgrading positively affects inclusive green growth (Biurrun et al, 2022; Hu et al, 2021; Poncet & De Waldemar, 2013; Qu et al, 2020). Yashiro et al (2017) pointed out that participation in higher value‐added activities and industries in global value chains would contribute to stronger productivity growth in Latvia.…”

A especialização geográfica e setorial das exportações brasileiras segundo o comércio em valor adicionado

“…Brazil's trade profile can illustrate this proposition by presenting different patterns across its various partners. As an economy in an intermediate level of development, with a large production structure heterogeneity, the country is involved in production tasks of a wide 2 See, for example, Milberg and Winkler (2013), Medeiros (2019), Dünhaupt and Herr (2021), Biurrun et al (2021) and Smichowski, Durand and Knauss (2021). 3 These authors propose the notion of the "hierarchy of comparative advantages" in an attempt to explain intra-industry trade by means of Ricardian comparative advantages, but they argue that the concept of hierarchy is also compatible with formulations à la Linder (representative demand) and technological explanations (such as Posner or Vernon's product cycle).…”