Fairness: A Challenge for the Distribution of Cooperation Gains in Value Chains

Abstract

UNCTAD’s Division on Investment and Enterprise builds on efforts in the international community to map the distribution of value added in global trade, launching a GVC dataset that expands coverage to include almost all countries, including developing economies, and a broad range of industries and activities of relevance to them. The UNCTAD-Eora GVC Database – part of UNCTAD’s FDI-TNCs-GVC Information System – provides new perspectives on trade links between economies, on the distribution of value added, income and employment resulting from trade, on the investment-trade nexus and on how transnational corporations (TNCs), through equity and contractual modes, shape patterns of value added trade.