Upgrading in global value chains: The effects of infrastructure variables

International trade volumes that have grown at a high rate since the 19th century also led to the continuous change and development theories as to research this area. The production processes that started to take on a very different structure especially in the last century with commercial expansions and the transition from the national to the international have brought about the changes in the processes related to the economical, social and political infrastructures of the countries along. The fact that developing countries are integrated with deeper links to the world economy leads them to increase their activities in global value chains and increase their value-added production processes in the chain. Accordingly the changing structure of international trade the study is examined under the title Global Value Chains, which is based on revealing the roles of all actors involved in production processes in commercial relations. However the study examine that forward-participation processes (upgrading) in the global value chains and: economic, social and political infrastructures of countries relations. The factors that effects countries upgrading process in the global value chains collected from WIOD, World Bank, OECD and Heritage Foundation. For analyzing the effects of infrastructure variables on upgrading 3 models established (Economic, Social and Politic) and analyzed by the generalize method of moments (GMM) which is a type of dynamic panel data analysis. The findings show that upgrading in global value chains is influenced by all the infrastructure variables which are used in the study.