Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

A university course book on international business that starts with the drivers of globalization and works through trade theories, entry modes, foreign direct investment and the WTO system. Written as a full semester syllabus with objectives and review questions in every unit.

Hitesh Jhanji

UNCTAD examines how trade can be turned into a development tool, covering commodities, trade in services, market access and the trade policy space that developing economies actually have. Each argument comes with data on how globalization redistributed gains between countries.

UNCTAD

The reference work on trade in services, covering how services cross borders and what liberalizing them does to finance, telecoms, transport, health and professional sectors. Each chapter pairs the economics with the regulatory questions governments face.

Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern and Gianni Zanini

A practical manual on how to build a national trade policy, from diagnosing the export base to sequencing liberalization and negotiating agreements. UNCTAD grounds every recommendation in cases drawn from countries that went through the process.

UNCTAD

A Harvard Business School study tracing how multinational firms have operated in developing economies since the first wave of globalization, and how political risk reshaped their strategies over a century. Useful for understanding why emerging markets attract or repel foreign investment.

Geoffrey Jones