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October 01 2018 Summary of the General Discussion on “Are Production Networks Passé in East Asia? Not Yet” Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1536-0083 Print Issn: 1535-3516 © 2018 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2018Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asian Economic Papers (2018) 17 (3): 113–114. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00639 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Summary of the General Discussion on “Are Production Networks Passé in East Asia? Not Yet”. Asian Economic Papers 2018; 17 (3): 113–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00639 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAsian Economic Papers Search Advanced Search Yanrui Wu agreed with Prema-chandra Athukorala on the policy relevance of the paper. The view that production networks have reached a saturation policy is now often referred to in the policy debate on prospects for export-led development strategy. The findings of this paper help dispel this pessimistic view. Wu wanted to know why world trade in primary product trade is declining. Keun Lee suggested that the authors use value-added data; Wu agreed with this suggestion. Athukorala argued that many researchers have used OECD value-added trade data blindly. He said this is not relevant for analyzing opportunities for export-oriented industrialisation. GPN expansion means value-added is declining everywhere. What is relevant is volume fact. Value-added is endogenous to the production process. For instance, President Park Chun Hee focused export incentives on gross exports, not value-added exports. Fukunari Kimura replied that value-added data have certain limitations and is not available at a level... You do not currently have access to this content.
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