This book examines how global value chains have evolved and the policy challenges they have created.

This chapter discusses various past and future aspects of the global economy. There has been a huge transformation of the global economy in the last several yea

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is b

In a globalised world, where goods cross borders many times as intermediate and as final products, trade facilitation is essential to lowering overall trade cos

Changing Patterns of Global Trade outlines the factors underlying important shifts in global trade that have occurred in recent decades. The emergence of global