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Fig. 7 | Applied Network Science

Fig. 7

From: Countries’ positions in the international global value networks: Centrality and economic performance

Fig. 7

Rankings and values of upstreamness centrality, midstreamness centrality, downstreamness centrality, exports, and imports of countries in the Textiles and Apparel industry in 2014. In panel (a), the size of each node (country) in the network is proportional to the sum of the country’s exports of intermediate inputs (upstream), the sum of the country’s imports of intermediate inputs and exports of final products (midstream), and the sum of the country’s imports of final products (downstream). For each centrality measure, countries are ranked according to the corresponding score (highest at the top). Each directed link connects a country in set U to a country in set M, or a country in set M to a country in set U, according to the definition of the tripartite network given in the text. The width of each link is proportional to the value of products exchanged by the two connected countries. The colour of each link refers to the continent of the country from which the link originates. Panels (b) and (c) show the geographic map in which each country is represented as a circle whose diameter is proportional to the country’s total exports (panel (b)) and total imports (panel (c)), and whose colour varies according to the corresponding value of upstreamness (panel (b)) and downstreamness (panel (c)) centralities. The network in panel (a) was visualised through VOS Viewer. Maps in panels (b) and (c) were visualised using Tableau Software

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