Optimising manufacturing growth: When to decouple from global value chains?
By: Banga, Karishma and Goldar, Bishwanath
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BookPublisher: Journal of Social and Economic Development Description: 27(2), Supple-Sep, 2025: p.218-242.Subject(s): Global value chains, Manufacturing growth, Panel data, Linkages
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Journal of Social and Economic DevelopmentSummary: In this paper, we empirically examine how increasing forward and backward global value chains (GVC) linkages affect manufacturing growth in a set of low- and middle-income countries for the period 1995–2018. Using panel data methodologies of fixed-effects, quantile, and threshold regressions, we find that the relationship between these linkages and manufacturing growth is nonlinear. Our results reveal that there is a positive relationship between backward linkages (BL) and manufacturing growth, but once BL exceed the 11–20% range, the relationship becomes negative. Similarly, FL can drive manufacturing growth up to a certain threshold, beyond which it no longer boosts growth and may even start to reduce it. The negative relationship between GVC linkages and manufacturing growth is attributed to the ‘in–out–in’ theory of GVC participation. Based on these findings, we identify countries that can benefit from increasing GVC participation and those that will benefit from a decoupling from GVCs.- Reproduced
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40847-024-00399-5
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In this paper, we empirically examine how increasing forward and backward global value chains (GVC) linkages affect manufacturing growth in a set of low- and middle-income countries for the period 1995–2018. Using panel data methodologies of fixed-effects, quantile, and threshold regressions, we find that the relationship between these linkages and manufacturing growth is nonlinear. Our results reveal that there is a positive relationship between backward linkages (BL) and manufacturing growth, but once BL exceed the 11–20% range, the relationship becomes negative. Similarly, FL can drive manufacturing growth up to a certain threshold, beyond which it no longer boosts growth and may even start to reduce it. The negative relationship between GVC linkages and manufacturing growth is attributed to the ‘in–out–in’ theory of GVC participation. Based on these findings, we identify countries that can benefit from increasing GVC participation and those that will benefit from a decoupling from GVCs.- Reproduced
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40847-024-00399-5
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