COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption of trade flows between countries, revealing the vulnerability of global value chains. This unexpected event sparked a public debate on devising new policies to increase the resilience of value chains.…
This paper examines the association between high-growth firm status and global linkages with special focus on the role of imports. We rely on a rich panel data covering all formal firms in Tunisia between 1999 and 2015. Our results show that firms…
This paper investigates the impact of investment climate on FDI in Africa using a dataset that spans 2000 to 2018. It also hypothesised that the relationship between investment climate and FDI could vary by country classification as a landlocked,…
Africa’s digital future makes an important and timely contribution to the literature on Africa, exploring the many opportunities and challenges that the continent faces in a world characterised by accelerating technological change. Edited by Prof…
There is much literature to support the view that export-ers (both developed and developing countries) pay higherwages than nonexporters. While this so-called export wagepremium has also been found to be prevalent in SouthAfrica, it has not been…
Purpose – This paper aims to identify China’s realistic export opportunities (REOs) among the “Belt and
Road Initiative” (BRI) group of countries.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology used is a decision support model (DSM) that filters
data…