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Making Thailand's services sector more competitive through international trade
Suzuki, Kosuke; Ayudhaya, Manasit Choomsai Na; Lenain, … - 2020
Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and professional services are traded indirectly through value...
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The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-level
Ariu, Andrea; Breinlich, Holger; Corcos, Gregory; Mion, … - 2017
In this paper we study how international trade in goods and services interact at the firm level. Using a rich dataset on Belgian firms during the period 1995-2005, we show that: i) firms are much more likely to source services and goods inputs from the same origin country rather than from...
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Trade in information technology goods : adapting the ITA to 21st century technological change
Dreyer, Iana; Hindley, Brian - 2008
Trade in technology goods has increased rapidly. The twelve-year-old Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the WTO has facilitated this process and has contributed to the dissemination of technology across the world. Yet the ITA needs to be improved to provide for further trade...
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Identifying growth opportunities in the Southern African Development Community through regional value chains : the case of the animal feed to poultry value chain
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda; … - 2017
southern Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe). The southern African regional poultry value chain is underdeveloped …, although important changes include investments by South Africa-based multinational firms and strong growth in Zambia. Building …
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Development of the animal feed to poultry value chain across Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2016
in urbanization. This growth has been accompanied by the increase in co-ordinated investments by large, predominantly … South African, firms across the region. We examine the developments in the value chain across countries in southern Africa … southern Africa given their ability to make co-ordinated investments at different levels and to realize the competitive …
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Positioning a metropolitan area for global competition
Maki, Wilbur R. - In: The journal of regional analysis & policy : JRAP 32 (2002) 2, pp. 85-100
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Prospects and challenges for supply chain trade under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area
De Melo, Jaime; Twum, Anna - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 2, pp. 49-61
African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in...
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India-Africa partnership in trade and investment : with focus on the agriculture and food sector
Gulati, Ashok; Das, Sandip - 2020
India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …
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Evolution of global value chains participation and economic growth in Africa
Nana, Ibrahim; Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul <Jr.> - Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains - 2023
Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by specializing in specific production stages and tasks. The objective of this study is twofold: (i) to investigate the evolution of African countries participation in global value...
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The African Regional Groups and International Trade
Pokorna, Irena - 2011
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