Gary Gereffi is an Emeritus Professor at Duke University and the founding director of the Duke GVC Center. He is currently teaching a course in Public Policy on Global Value Chain Analysis. As a Professor of Sociology he taught courses on economic sociology, globalization and comparative development, and international competitiveness. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Gereffi has published numerous books and articles on globalization, industrial upgrading, and social and economic development in various parts of the world. His books include: Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Princeton University Press, 1990); Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Praeger Publishers, 1994); and Global Value Chains and Development (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Gereffi’s research interests deal with the competitive strategies of global firms, the governance of GVCs, economic and social upgrading, and the global knowledge economy.
Latest Reports
Latest Publications
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Industries without Smokestacks: Africa and Tourism GVCs
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Global Value Chains and International Development: Framework, Findings and Policies
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Tourism GVCs & Africa: Working Paper
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Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer: 2nd Edition
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Promoting Decent Work in Global Supply Chains (GSCs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): Key Issues, Good Practices, Lessons Learned and Policy Insights
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Global value chains and upgrading: Export promotion in FTZs
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Bahrain’s Position in the Global Apparel Value Chain: How the U.S.-Bahrain FTA and TPLs Shape Future Development Options
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Regional trade agreements and export competitiveness: the uncertain path of Nicaragua’s apparel exports under CAFTA
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The Future of Manufacturing: Driving Capabilities, Enabling Investments
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North Carolina’s Manufacturing Wage Gap
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Global Value Chains in Latin America: A Development Perspective for Upgrading
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What Role Can Coal Play in the United States’ Energy Future?
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Global value chains in a post-Washington Consensus world
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Globalization, Recession and the Internationalization of Industrial Districts: Experiences from the Italian Gold Jewelry Industry
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Comparing Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s Wheat GVC
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Brazilian Manufacturing in International Perspective: A Global Value Chain Analysis of Brazil’s Aerospace, Medical Devices, and Electronics Sectors
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Global Value Chain-Oriented Industrial Policy: The Role of Emerging Economies
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Regional Competitiveness in the Latin America Offshore Services Value Chain
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Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains
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Global Value Chains and Agrifoods Standards: Challenges and Possibilities for Smallholders in Developing Countries
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Skills for Upgrading: Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries
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Upgrading & Restructuring in the Global Apparel Value Chain: Why China & Asia are Outperforming Mexico & Central America
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Global Value Chains, Upgrading and Poverty Reduction
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China’s (Not So Hidden) Developmental State: Becoming a Leading Nanotechnology Innovator in the Twenty-First Century
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The Offshore Services Value Chain: Upgrading Trajectories in Developing Countries
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Traveling Technologies: Societal Implications of Nanotechnology Through the Global Value Chain
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Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer
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The Marketing and Distribution of Fast Food
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Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: Resilience, Consolidation, and Shifting End Markets
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The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
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The Offshore Services Value Chain: Developing Countries and the Crisis
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Trade, Transnational Corporations and Food Consumption: A GVC Approach
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U.S.-Based Food and Agricultural Value Chains and Their Relevance to Healthy Diets
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Protectionism in Textiles and Apparel
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Review and Analysis of Protectionist Actions in the Textile and Apparel Industries
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The American Brain Drain and Asia
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Value Chain Governance
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The Impacts of Wal-Mart: The Rise and Consequences of the World’s Dominant Retailer
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America’s Loss is the World’s Gain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part IV
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A Global Value Chain Approach to Food Safety and Quality Standards
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The Challenge of Global Value Chains: Why Integrative Trade Requires New Thinking and New Data
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How the Disciple Became the Guru
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The Globalization of Innovation: Can India and China Cure the Global Pharmaceutical Market?
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Skilled Immigration and Economic Growth
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Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China, and India
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A Global Value Chains Approach to Food, Healthy Diets, and Childhood Obesity
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Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog and a Reverse Brain-Drain: Part III
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Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part II
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Where the Engineers Are
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Prospects for Canada in the NAFTA Automotive Industry: A Global Value Chain Analysis
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America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part I
Latest Presentations
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COVID-19 and Global Supply Chains: Disruptions and Restructuring
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The Digital Economy & Global Value Chains: Implications for Korea
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Global Value Chains, Industry 4.0, and Korean Industrial Transformation
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Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters
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Africa & Tourism Global Value Chains
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Global Value Chains and Development
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Global Value Chains and Development: Concepts and Methodologies
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From Value Chain Mapping to Policy Recommendations
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Global Value Chains and the Changing Geography of Development
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Productive Development Policies and Upgrading: Linking Value Chains, Regions and Firms
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Global Value Chains and Duke CGGC’s Collaboration in Kazakhstan
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Can Public-Private Partnerships Actually Benefit the Poor?
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Shifting Governance Structures in the Wheat Value Chain: Implications for Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa
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Medical Devices Global Value Chain: Opportunities and Challenges for Upgrading
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The Coal Industry Value Chain and Competitiveness
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Nova Scotia’s Ocean Technologies
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Global Value Chains in the Ocean Technology Sector
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Global Value Chain Analysis: A Framework for Analyzing Upgrading and Competitiveness in Global Industries
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Global Value Chain Analysis: A Competitiveness Framework for Ocean Technologies Companies in Nova Scotia
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A Value Chain Approach to Understanding the Impact of Nanotechnology
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Manufacturing Climate Solutions in a Carbon-Constrained World
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Global Services Offshoring: Trends and Impact in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Beyond the Sunbelt: Southern Economic Development in a Global Context
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Global Value Chains, Industrial Upgrading and Jobs in Large Emerging Economies: A Comparison of China, India, and Mexico
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Nanotechnology, Commercialization & Innovation: North Carolina
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North Carolina in the Global Economy: A New Look at Global Competition, Local Jobs and the Role of Research Universities
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China’s Impact on North Carolina’s Major Industries
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Nanotechnology in a Global Context: North Carolina
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NC in the Global Economy-global competition, local jobs, research universities and community colleges
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North Carolina in the Global Economy: A new look at global competition, local jobs, and the role of research universities
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The Offshoring of Engineering
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North Carolina in the Global Economy: New Strategies to Compete in Traditional and Modern Industries
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International Trade and Offshore Production: Tracking China’s Shifting Role in the Global Economy
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The Fiber-Textile-Apparel Value Chain: Mexico and China Compared
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The New Offshoring of Jobs and Its Implications for Skills and Consumers
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ILO Nobel Peace Prize Social Policy Lectures & Symposium
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