This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation factors on trade flows, with a particular focus on Global Value Chains (GVCs) in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using the structural gravity model of international and intra-national…
This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and MENA, we use propensity score matching (PSM) to…
This book discusses the most recent developments in the WTO regime. Issues such as E-commerce, security exception clause, China's compliance with the WTO obligations, sustainability development, IP protection in FTZs, trade controls and etc.,…
The study of the trade policy concepts within a framework of hyper globalization and global regulation system transformation requires new theoretical and methodological approaches. On the one hand, trade policy design and implementation is closely…
La numérisation avancée de nos économies favorise le capital par rapport au travail et le travail qualifié par rapport au travail non qualifié. Sachant que le niveau de capital humain des pays de l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (…
Considered as the main source of economic growth in the United States of America and other northern countries, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are seen as a key factor that can boost Africa’s development. They have proved to be…
Considérées comme une variable exogène assimilable à une manne tombée du ciel (Schumpeter, 1913), les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) sont devenues progressivement indispensables dans le système de production (Baldwin et…
Recent trends in GDP growth in Africa reveal that despite sustained growth over a long period of time, there has been no significant decline in poverty or increase in employment. In most African countries, the decline in agricultural activity has…
This chapter analyses the impact of the internet on global value chains (GVCs) in Africa. We investigate the effect of internet adoption on forward participation and backward participation of African countries in GVCs. We conduct the estimations…