Baldwin versus Rodrik on Globalisation

Depuis maintenant de nombreuses années, le processus de production des firmes à l'échelle internationale est fragmenté. Les composants d'un bien sont produits en divers endroits ce qui explique les échanges internationaux et les investissements à l'étranger. Richard Baldwin, expert de la question, a récemment écrit un post où il explique que cette métamorphose des échanges est parfois mal comprise (notamment par Dani Rodrik)... Je vous laisse découvrir:


"GLOBALISATION is being widely mis-thought. A recent example is the Project Syndicate column by Dani Rodrik asserting that the age of "growth miracles" is coming to an end: we’ll be seeing no more Chinas or Koreas, he asserts. The key mis-thinking stems from the view that globalisation is driven la suite ... "

Pour un article plus académique, voir Richard Baldwin, 2012. Global supply chains: Why they emerged, why they matter, and where they are going. CEPR DP9103.Voici l'abstract:

Global supply chains (GSCs) are transforming the world. This paper explores why they emerged, why they are significant and future directions they are likely to take along with some implications for policy. After putting global supply chains into an historical perspective, the paper presents an economic framework for understanding the functional and geographical unbundling of production. The fundamental trade off in supply chain fractionalisation is between specialisation gains and coordination costs. The key trade-off in supply chain dispersion is between dispersion and agglomeration forces. Supply-chain trade should be not viewed as standard trade in parts and components rather than final goods. Production sharing has linked cross-border flows of goods, investment, services, know-how and people in novel ways. The paper suggest that future of global supply chains will be influenced by: 1) improvements in coordination technology that lowers the cost of functional and geographical unbundling, 2) improvements in computer integrated manufacturing that lowers the benefits of specialisation and shifts stages toward greater skill-, capital, and technology-intensity, 3) narrowing of wage gaps that reduces the benefit of North-South offshoring to nations like China, and 4) the price of oil that raises the cost of unbundling.