Global Value Chains and Industrial Development

 Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 GVC participation and trade.- Chapter 3 Upgrading in GVCs.- Chapter 4 Measuring connectivity in global maritime and aviation networks.- Chapter 5 Technological intensities of exports in East Asia.

Ikuo Kuroiwa is Professor at Faculty of International Economic Studies, University of Niigata Prefecture (UNP), specialized in regional economics and East Asian economies with particular emphasis on economic integration and the formation of production networks in this region. Before he joined UNP, he had been working for Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) for more than 30 years. While he was a researcher at IDE-JETRO, he was posted to the US, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand to conduct research on East Asian economies. In recent years, however, he has expanded his scope of analysis and conducted research on GVCs in Africa and other developing regions.




During his long carrier as a researcher, he has edited several books on production networks and industrial clusters in East Asia, which include The Location of Industries in Newly Integrated East Asian Economies: New Economic Geography Perspective, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011; and Production Networks and Industrial Clusters: Integrating Economies in East Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2008. He is also the author of refereed papers, such as "Agglomeration economies in Vietnam." Journal of Asian Economics, 62, June 2019; and "Value Content and Production Networks in Southeast Asia: Application of AFTA and ASEAN Plus One FTA Formulas." The Developing Economies, 47(2), 2009.

 So UMEZAKI is Director of Economic Integration Studies Group, Development Studies Center in the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), specialized in economic integration in ASEAN with particular emphasis on the role of connectivity through land, maritime, and air transportation. He joined IDE in 1995, after receiving his Master's degree from the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University in Japan.