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Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade
Borin, Alessandro - 2019
The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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Services Linkages and the Value Added Content of Trade
Francois, Joseph F. - 2017
Services trade constitute roughly one-third of trade on a value added basis, and much of this is concentrated in margin services (transport, logistics) linked to trade in goods. However, producer services are also part of the value added contained in traded goods. This is especially true in high...
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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation
de Soyres, Francois - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
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Services Trade and Global Value Chains
Heuser, Cecilia - 2018
Services play a role in global value chains in many ways, similar to goods. But services deserve special attention because of how they are transacted, how they affect downstream sectors, how they are regulated, and how international cooperation can contribute to integrating national markets....
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A Profile of Border Protection in Egypt : An Effective Rate of Protection Approach Adjusting for Energy Subsidies
Valdes, Alberto - 2017
This study examines recent effective rates of protection across the Egyptian economy, using an ad valorem price wedge introduced by nontariff barriers and energy subsidies, and compares today's effective rates of protection with those of a decade ago. The study uses 23 aggregated sectors from...
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GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil
Hollweg, Claire Honore - 2018
Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current …
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Economic Upgrading Through Global Value Chain Participation : Which Policies Increase the Value Added Gains?
Kummritz, Victor - 2018
The emergence of global value chains has opened up new ways to achieve development and industrialization. However, new evidence shows that not all countries have gained from participating in global value chains, and that country-specific characteristics matter for economic upgrading in global...
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The Extent of Engagement in Global Value Chains by Firms in Rwanda
Frazer, Garth - 2019
Using administrative data for an exhaustive sample of formally registered firms, reveals that the engagement of Rwandan firms in global value chains (GVCs) is remarkably limited. The paper documents several patterns of firm-level exports and compares firm characteristics between exporters and...
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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
Ederington, Josh - 2017
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
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Input Substitutability and Cross-Country Variation in Sectoral Linkages
Sinha, Rishabh - 2019
Using panel data on input-output intensities and expenditure prices from 28 countries, this paper finds the elasticity of substitution across sectoral inputs to be less than one in each of the three broad sectors of the economy. Intermediates are most complementary in the production of services...
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