This paper studies the relationship between Asia’s economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are still highly concentrated in resource-intensive...

Emerging Asian countries with Francophone Africa constitute the most important part of the population of the developing world. The partnership reflects their similar view and potential for economic cooperation which has wider implications. This paper demonstrates that South-south cooperation...