Participation in GVCs and the size of an economy – the case of developed and developing economies

• Authors: Fronczek Małgorzata

Title variants

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Udział w GVC a wielkość gospodarki – przypadek krajów rozwiniętych i rozwijających się

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article aims to examine the relationship between the participation of developed and developing countries in GVCs and the size of their economies (GDP was adopted as a measure of the size of an economy). The results indicated a moderate but negative relationship between the GVC index and the GDP value, which means that larger countries were less involved in GVCs. However, the separation of developed countries from developing countries for the purpose of the analysis yielded interesting results. The calculations showed that the participation of developing countries in GVCs was on average only slightly weaker than the involvement of developed countries, but the relationship between the examined variables was only true for developed countries (the correlation coefficient indicated a moderate negative relationship). The participation of developing countries in GVCs, on the other hand, was not related to the size of their economies.

PL

Celem artykułu jest zbadanie zależności pomiędzy zaangażowaniem krajów rozwiniętych i rozwijających się w GVC a wielkością ich gospodarek (jako miarę wielkości gospodarki przyjęto wartość GDP). Uzyskane wyniki wykazały słabą, ale ujemną zależność pomiędzy wskaźnikiem GVC a wartością GDP, tzn. że większe kraje były mniej zaangażowane w GVC. Jednak oddzielenie w analizie krajów rozwiniętych od rozwijających się dało bardzo interesujące wyniki. Obliczenia pokazały, że zaangażowanie krajów rozwijających się w GVC było przeciętnie niewiele mniejsze niż krajów rozwiniętych, ale zależność pomiędzy badanymi zmiennymi była prawdziwa jedynie w odniesieniu do krajów rozwiniętych (współczynnik korelacji wskazywał na umiarkowaną zależność ujemną). Natomiast zaangażowanie krajów rozwijających się w GVC nie miało związku z wielkością ich gospodarek.

Keywords

EN

trade in value added; globalization; international trade; global value chains; GVC

PL

handel według wartości dodanej; globalizacja; handel międzynarodowy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Year: 2020
• Issue: vol. 64, nr 4
• Pages: 42-51

Contributors

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Fronczek Małgorzata

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