Places in the world unable to access new technologies cannot tap into the benefits of globalisation and risk further marginalisation from global trade (Castells, 1998). Does information and communication technology (ICT), therefore, contribute to marginalisation of least developed countries...

This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competitiveness. The study identifies 'lead products'...

Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African Community’s (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With surgical attention to detail, the first part of the paper...