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…
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…
Trade and sustainable development share a complex relationship. The economic benefits of trade make it easy to see how it can assist with the achievement of the economic-based SDGs. But beyond that, trade also impacts the social and environmental…
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 book explores the ways to 'rethink', 'repackage' and 'rescue' world trade law in the post-COVID-19 era. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an important context, the book makes original and critical contributions to the growing debate over a range…
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…
This chapter evaluates the extent to which changes in tariffs and in international prices were transmitted into consumer prices in Tunisia over the period 2000– 2008. A pass-through equation is estimated using sectoral panel data at the retail…
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This book explores the ways to 'rethink', 'repackage' and 'rescue' world trade law in the post-COVID-19 era. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an…