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Deep Trade Integration and North-South Participation in Global Value Chains
Razeq, Zarlasht - 2022
Do comprehensive trade agreements increase the participation of States in global value chains (GVCs) and contribute to their development? Although there is extensive evidence in the trade literature that deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs) can increase States’ bilateral export of final...
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Global Value Chains : benefiting the domestic economy?
Kummritz, Victor - 2015
Global Value Chains (GVCs) have become a central topic in trade and development policy but little is known about their actual impact on economic performance because data availability has been limited. Using a new unique set of Inter- Country Input-Output tables with extensive country coverage, I...
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E-commerce and developing country-SME participation in global value chains
Lanz, Rainer; Lundquist, Kathryn; Mansio, Grégoire; … - 2018 - Manuscript date: November 2018
connectivity, as captured by whether a firm has a website or not, facilitates the participation of manufacturing SMEs from … developing countries in global value chains (GVCs). We find robust evidence that digital connectivity facilitates the … for large firms. Beyond digital connectivity at the firm level, we also assess the role of a country's ICT infrastructure …
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Reading the footprints : how foreign investors shape countries' participation in global value chains
Buelens, Christian; Tirpák, Marcel - 2017
We show that traditional gravity variables play a significant role in explaining trade flows related to global value chain participation. We find evidence that cooperation costs - measured by linguistic and geographical proximity - are more relevant for trade that reflects cross-border...
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Harnessing the commonwealth advantage in global value chains
Khorana, Sangeeta; Escaith, Hubert - 2020
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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Trade, global value chains and development : what role for national development banks?
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 3, pp. 9-33
In diesem Artikel diskutieren wir die Notwendigkeit von Industriepolitik und die Rolle der Entwicklungsbanken für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung. Der Aufholprozess der Länder des globalen Südens auf das Produktivitätsniveau und den Lebensstandard des globalen Nordens ist die Ausnahme. Dafür...
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Global value chains - a Panacea for development?
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg - 2021
concentration at the corporate level. On the other hand, globalization has resulted in more countries participating in international …
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Trade, global value chains and development : what role for national development banks?
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg - 2020
The catching-up of countries in the Global South to productivity levels and living standards of the Global North is the exception. There are two main economic explanations for this. First, developing countries are pushed to low-tech-labor-intensive productions and tasks in global value chains....
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Opportunities for development through integration in global value chains? : a cross-sectoral and cross-national comparison
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg; Mehl, Fabian; … - 2020
In traditional trade theory, it is generally assumed that the development of export-oriented industries in the Global South can create the conditions for technological spillover effects, productivity increases and social welfare gains. However, based on the results of comparative case studies in...
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