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As this special issue demonstrates, the literature on Global Value Chains (GVCs), Global Production Networks, and Global Commodity Chains continues to provide important insights into the governance and organization of production and distribution networks. The continuing promise of these investigations is that knowledge about processes of information sharing enables developing countries to compete in the world economy, and that the wealth arising from production can better reflect where value is created. This commentary piece suggests that GVCs (hereafter ‘value chains’) co-exist with what we call Global Wealth Chains (GWCs or ‘wealth chains’). This co-existence undermines many of the development objectives articulated in research on value chains. We define Global Wealth Chains as linked forms of capital seeking to avoid accountability during processes of pecuniary wealth creation. By accountability …