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How the Reduction of Regulatory Barriers to Trade in Services may affect the Architecture of Global Value Chains: The Case of TISA
Significant reductions in tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as advances in information technology over the last decades have allowed countries to expand their production process beyond national borders, reflecting the increasing relevance of…
Aide pour le commerce et connexion aux chaînes de valeurs mondiales: Quelles leçons pour la croissance dans les pays de la CEDEA
Cette contribution a pour objectif d’analyser les relations entre l’aide pour le commerce, la connectivité aux chaînes de valeurs globales et la croissance économique dans les pays de la CEDEAO. Pour y parvenir, plusieurs outils et modèles sont…
The Digital Creative Economy, Global Value Chains and Developing Countries: The Role of Aid for Trad in Building Connectivity and Facilitating Market Entry for Developing Countries
This paper addresses the rise of the digital creative economy which is one of the defining features of the contemporary global economy given that creative content accounts for a significant share of e-commerce as well as content on mobile networks,…
Training: GVC and TiVA
Mr Christophe Degain and Dr Victor Kümmritz, from the WTO’s Economic Research and Statistics Division in Geneva, Switzerland, visited the NWU from 30 May-1 June 2017 to conduct a workshop on how a Trade in Value Added (TiVA) approach to measuring…