Published in:Working paper - Institute of Social Studies ; No. 694, 2022
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.4036665
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 16, 2022 erstellt
Description:
The collapse of world trade in 2020 due to lockdowns in response of the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled a rethinking of globalization with policies being reoriented towards strategic autonomy and local production by means of nearshoring and insourcing. Comparing the impact of the COVID-19 trade shock to the Great Depression, this article focusing on resilience and recovery argues that international value chains and the global trading system have helped to weather the impact of the global unprecedented response to a health shock