Partnership and cooperation remain the essence of United Nations 2030 (UN2030) Agenda. However, the regional cooperation framework often lacks comprehensive economic analysis and estimation of probabilistic impacts of any country's socio-economic and environmental activities on the people and...

The rise of agricultural global value chains (AGVCs) has transformed the nature of food production around the world. This paper provides evidence on the job creation effects in response to the expansion of AGVCs in agrarian economies. By using a constructed panel data set of 155 countries for...

We analyze the relationship between domestic value chains (DVCs) and global value chains (GVCs). We study whether the development of DVCs has an effect on – or can even be considered a precondition for – the integration into GVCs. We provide evidence that DVC integration positively affects...