Global Value Chain Development Report 2019

The report is a follow-up to the first Global Value Chain Development Report, which revealed the changing nature of international trade when analyzed in terms of value chains and value-added trade.

This report is co-published by the World Trade Organization, the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Research Center of Global Value Chains headquartered at the University of International Business and Economics (RCGVC-UIBE), the World Bank Group, and the China Development Research Foundation.

Published in 2019.

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• Full report
• Foreword, Co-publishing partners, Contributors, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and acronyms, Key messages and Executive Summary
• Chapter 1: Recent patterns of global production and GVC participation
• Chapter 2: Trade, value chains and labor markets in advanced economies
• Chapter 3: Global value chains and employment in developing economies
• Chapter 4: Technological progress, diffusion, and opportunities for developing countries: lessons from China
• Chapter 5: Understanding Supply Chain 4.0 and its potential impact on global value chains
• Chapter 6: The digital economy, GVCs and SMEs
• Chapter 7: Should high domestic value added in exports be an objective of policy?
• Chapter 8: Improving the accounting frameworks for analyses of global value chains; Appendix 1: Chapter Authors' conference; Appendix 2: Technological Innovation, Supply Chain Trade, and Workers in a Globalized World