European integration and weak states: Romania's road to exclusionary development

V Vukov - Review of International Political Economy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper challenges approaches that expect unavoidable decline in developmental state
capacities as a result of European market integration. Using Romania's automotive industry …

The evolution of downstream global value chains in Eastern Europe

P Vakhal - Society and Economy, 2023 - akjournals.com
While international value chains have been present in planned economies for several
decades, their integration into global value chains (GVCs) began in the 1990s. In this study …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 Implications on Global Value Chains in Bulgaria and Romania

I Christova-Balkanska - Global Economic Observer, 2021 - globeco.ro
New structures formed because of the globalisation of the international economy. Global
value chains (GVCs) represent a stage in the development of international production, trade …