The WCP hosted a second Research Hub and Knowledge-Sharing Webinar on 16 December 2025, exploring how the adoption of green innovations affects firms’ engagement in international trade, and how governance quality influences these outcomes.
Amidst an increasingly complex global economic landscape, the rapid expansion of digital trade has emerged as a vital growth engine for nations worldwide while simultaneously disrupting traditional international trade frameworks. Major developed economies are actively constructing digital trade governance systems through regional trade agreements, where proliferating digital-focused RTAs with expanding coverage have collectively formed an interconnected digital trade rule network.
Este artículo explora cómo la desglobalización y la fragmentación del comercio están reconfigurando los patrones de integración regional y los flujos de las cadenas de valor globales. Empleando un enfoque de métodos mixtos, combina análisis históricos, estudios de casos y datos económicos para examinar los impulsores y las consecuencias de estos cambios.
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 and data covering the period from 2006 to 2018, we analyze the influence of maritime connectivity and cross-border trade-facilitation factors on trade in final and intermediate goods. Our findings indicate that both factors play pivotal roles in both agricultural and manufacturing subsectors’ trade.
On 04 July 2024, Kathmandu University School of Management published the Conference Proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Global Trade and South Asia: Competitiveness, Value Chains, and ESG held on 07-08 January 2024.
The course explores evolving aspects of global trade in dynamic economic landscapes. Participants engage directly with renowned experts and practitioners in international trade law, gaining insights and practical experiences. The curriculum provides a nuanced understanding of contemporary challenges and opportunities in international trade. Upon the successful conclusion of the course, participants will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.
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 compare similar companies that differ in terms of GVC participation. Our results show that firms that enter GVCs perform better across several environmental indicators.
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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 country-level data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Eora GVC database and firm-level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey. We test whether internet adoption facilitates the participation of Africa in GVCs at the country level and the firm level.