Beyond offshoring: Tradable services and regional value chains in the Global South

超越离岸外包：南半球的可贸易服务和区域价值链

• 批准号: 505329997
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Javier Revilla Diez
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Geographisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/505329997?language=en
• 关键词: Beyond; offshoring; Tradable; services; regional

Services generate more than half of global GDP. World service exports grew by 3.9 per cent per annum between 2008 and the Covid-19 pandemic, compared with 2.3 per cent for merchandise exports. Growing trade in services presents an opportunity for countries in the Global South to diversify their development strategies. Emerging nations may for the first time contribute significantly to the world's services industries. No longer relegated to manufacturing and natural resource-intensive industries, they now have an important opportunity to advance both their economic and social conditions.Unfortunately, the Global South is often portrayed in academic discourses as a passive recipient of growth impulses from Europe and North America. The internationalization of firms from developing countries and evidence that some progress into leaders in value chains have been neglected. Our project will show that there are endogenous dynamics of service exports across the Global South, with companies from countries such as Argentina, Singapore and South Africa venturing into foreign markets in banking, communications, information technologies and other sectors. They generate positive effects for these companies and the various places where they operate.The project will also make a contribution to research on regional value chains (RVCs), analysing whether – and if so, how – Southern service provides split their activities across various countries. Only initial efforts have been made to map RVCs. The conditions that lead to their rise need further investigation; so does their impact on firms – through upgrading – and the spreading of gains across various regional countries.RVCs are part of a broader academic debate to which this project will contribute. Global trade has become manifold and polycentric, with value chains oriented towards distinct end markets. Regionalization and trade among Southern economies are more and more important, complementing globalization and North–South trade. Research along these lines should concentrate on private and public governance of value chains behind the new trade, and on firm upgrading and regional development associated with it.

服务业创造了全球GDP的一半以上。从2008年到新冠肺炎疫情，全球服务出口年增长率为3.9%，相比之下，商品出口年增长率为2.3%。不断增长的服务贸易为全球南方国家提供了使其发展战略多样化的机会。新兴国家可能首次对世界服务业做出重大贡献。它们不再被归入制造业和自然资源密集型产业，现在有一个重要的机会来提升其经济和社会条件。不幸的是，在学术话语中，全球南方经常被描绘成欧洲和北美增长动力的被动接受者。发展中国家公司的国际化，以及在价值链中成为领导者的一些进展被忽视的证据。我们的项目将表明，随着阿根廷、新加坡和南非等国的公司冒险进入银行、通信、信息技术和其他行业的外国市场，全球南部地区存在服务出口的内生动力。该项目还将对区域价值链(RVC)的研究做出贡献，分析南方服务的提供是否--如果是--如何将其活动分散到不同的国家。只做出了初步的努力来绘制RVC图。导致它们崛起的条件需要进一步调查；它们对公司的影响--通过升级--以及收益在各个区域国家的传播也是如此。RVC是一个更广泛的学术辩论的一部分，本项目将对此做出贡献。全球贸易已变得多元化和多中心，价值链面向不同的终端市场。南方经济体之间的区域化和贸易越来越重要，与全球化和南北贸易相辅相成。沿着这些思路的研究应该集中在新贸易背后的价值链的私人和公共治理，以及与之相关的企业升级和区域发展。