Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South

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The project aims to fill gaps in research on the impact of COVID-19 on social upgrading trajectories in global value chains (GVCs) through theoretical and empirical contributions. Overall, it aspires to observe in a timely manner how key players in the Global South as well as external players like lead firms reacted to the COVID-19 crisis, and to which extent existing socio-economic regimes and varieties of capitalisms shape these crisis reactions. This intermediate research could immediately tie up to current research results of the applicant referring to a period before COVID-19 and then feed into a longer-term research proposal on structural reorientations of social upgrading trajectories in the Global South after COVID-19.