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How important are Global Value Chains for development? Read the new WDR2020 draft report and comment

Following an intense research and writing process over the last 10 months, I am pleased figure_1_-_2020_wdr_framework to announce that a draft of the World Development Report (WDR) 2020 – Trading for Developing in the Age of Global Value Chains is now available online for public comment.

Why Global Value Chains (GVCs) and why now? 

The World Bank’s last report on trade was more than thirty years ago – WDR 1987 Industrialization and Foreign Trade. In the meantime:

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