Paper accepted on African inequality trends
| Date: | 08 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The paper ‘Long term trends in economic inequality: Lessons from colonial Botswana 1921–1974’ written by Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom (Lund University) has been accepted for publication in the Economic History Review. The show a rise and subsequent decline...
Value chain specialisation in Sweden
| Date: | 30 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries completed a consultancy report on ‘Global Value Chain Specialization Patterns of Sweden and Its Key Competitors’ for Tillväxtanalys (Stockholm, Sweden). The analysis shows that Austria and the Netherlands are emerging as key competitors...
Alternative poverty measurement
| Date: | 30 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Robert Inklaar presented research-in-progress with Jutta Bolt at a World Bank meeting. The main question is whether the World Bank's approach to measuring global poverty does adequate justice to cross-country differences and whether a new method for...
El Pais on value chains
| Date: | 25 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
El Pais reports on the changing structure of world trade using data from the World Input-Output Database (in Spanish).
Emissions growth has domestic roots
| Date: | 15 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries published new research with Benno Ferrarini of the Asian Development Bank where they account for the growth of carbon dioxide emissions due to changes in consumption, technology and global supply chain trade, see here. While emerging...
PWT paper appears in AER
| Date: | 05 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
A paper co-authored by Robert Feenstra from UC Davis, Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer has appeared in the October issue of the American Economic Review. The paper details the new version of the widely-used Penn World Table, how this database can best be...
China-EU seminar on structural change
| Date: | 05 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries participated in an expert seminar organised by the European Commission's DG EMPL and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on structural change.
Value added in exports paper accepted in AER
| Date: | 29 September 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The paper "Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports: Comment" (login required), written by Bart Los, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries will appear in the American Economic Review. They provide a much simpler and more intuitive method for...
Start of the post-WIOD VICI project of Marcel Timmer
| Date: | 01 September 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The VICI project "Modelling Global Value Chains, a new framework to study trade, jobs and income inequality in an interdependent world" has started. This 5-year project involving a team of PhD students and post docs is led by Marcel Timmer and funded by...
New GGDC hires
| Date: | 01 September 2015 |
Four new hires will strengthen the GGDC: PhD students Stefan Pahl and Aobo Jiang, and post docs Laurie Reijnders and Wen Chen.