This paper deals with the problem of vulnerability of developing countries and their resilience capacity with respect to external shocks. The analysis particularly considers the countries of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the transmission risks of the 2007 financial crisis were...

This work proposes to analyse learning opportunities in North-South trade. Without a direct measure of knowledge transmission, we use export and import sophistications in order to evaluate learning effects for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) and Developing Asian (DA) countries with regard to their...

This work proposes to analyze the determinants of trade in bottom-line products, in comparison with global trade. It also tries to assess the risks of competition between developing countries, particularly between Sub-Saharan Africa and developing Asia. It tries to assess the available...