From domestic to regional to global: Factory Africa and factory Latin America?
Ahmad, N, Primi A.
2017
#Trade and FDI
#Social and working conditions
This chapter provides a brief overview of upgrading and GVC terminologies, providing insights on interpretability pitfalls. It offers evidence of the complementarities between strong domestic supply chains and imports and then demonstrates the importance of strong regional value chains for integration at a global level. And to illustrate the complementarities, it ends with examples of broad and targeted policies that countries are implementing for the motor vehicle value chain.
