Introduction and overview / Patrick Low, Chiedu Osakwe and Maika Oshikawa -- African Union priorities in the WTO / Fatima Haram Acyl -- Economic diversification in Africa's number one economy / Okechukwu E. Enelamah -- Trade, investment and development / Rob Davies -- Integration into regional...

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was widely regarded as a major milestone in the development of the Chinese economy as well as the multilateral trading system. This book provides a remarkable background of information about China's economy after WTO accession and...

In the 2000s, China's WTO entry constituted a major trade shock. In this paper, we analyze its eff ects on trade and value chains. The fragmentation of the global value chain makes it hard to disentangle who produces for whom. Value added trade contains this information. We build a multi-sector...