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Services and Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Is the Dstinction Obsolete?

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This paper introduces a taxonomy of service activities in GVCs and describes the main statistical challenges in assessing the contribution of manufacturing and services to output, value added, or trade. It then reviews three approaches that take GVCs into account in the analysis of income, comparative advantage, and productivity to address these challenges. As statisticians are working on improving the framework for understanding global production, policymakers should be aware of the blurring lines between goods and services.

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  • Sébastien Miroudot, 2019. "Services and Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Is the Dstinction Obsolete?," Working Papers id:13013, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:13013
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    Keywords

    eSS; taxation; taxonomy of service activities; statistical challenges; manufacturing; service output; value; global value chains (GVCs); de-industrialization; servicification; income; global production; policymakers; goods and services.;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • F68 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Policy
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • L80 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - General

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