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Global Value Chains: Impacts and Implications - Center on ...

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Why this matters<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Global</str<strong>on</strong>g> value chains do not make comparative advantage any less<br />

relevant (as some have claimed).<br />

– In fact, the opposite is more likely the case…GVCs give<br />

comparative advantage a finer edge.<br />

Same gains from trade!<br />

– Gains from trade may be even greater when trade takes place<br />

at a more granular level.<br />

Provides an important link between trade in goods, services,<br />

inward <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> outward FDI, movement of ideas <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> of people.<br />

Competiti<strong>on</strong> increases <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> becomes more refined.<br />

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