Content type

Chairs

Trade Topics

Year

Research

Trade facilitation in global value chains: Assessing the role of maritime connectivity and trading across borders

7 October 2024

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 trade ...

Global value chains in the age of internet: what opportunities for Africa?

5 April 2021

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 using cou ...