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Abdullah Altun

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Abdullah Altun
Department of Economics, Gebze Technical University, Turkey

Abdullah Altun received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 from the Gebze Technical University, Turkey. He is a full-time assistant professor in Economics at the Gebze Technical University, Turkey. His primary research interest is international trade and economic growth. In his studies, he mainly focuses on the macroeconomic impacts of GVCs. He was visiting scholar at the Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship of the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTEM), Malaysia and at the Faculty of Economics of University of Warsaw, Poland. Before the full-time academic career, he was working as a Senior Specialist in Informatics and Information Security Research Center in The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

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Trade openness and global value chains: effects on Turkish industries

Production processes and distribution systems have become increasingly fragmented across countries since the 1990s. Many large economies have benefitted from this phenomenon of ‘global value chains’, but as this column explains, the story may be different for developing countries. Empirical evidence from Turkey reveals positive productivity and growth effects of linkages, but damaging effects of backward participation on industries.

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