Region Of Southern Africa: International Trade And Global Value Chains

Modeling The Cost of International Trade in Global Supply Chains

Aid for Trade and engaging with global value chains: developing trade and reducing food insecurity?

Acknowledgements The author is grateful to comments received from Sheila Page of the ODI and assistance from Jane Kennan on developing this draft. In addition, the author is very grateful to the support provided by Leonard Oduori, CABE, Nairobi, Kenya and inputs received from various stakeholders during the interview process. This report is adapted from a larger programme of work funded by the ...

Capturing the Gains in Global Value Chains: Trade in Intermediates and Value Added Erosion

Many countries in 1995-2008 have experienced what we call “value added erosion”, which describes the phenomenon of the decline in the shares of domestic value added in a country’s exports as the country becomes more integrated into the Global Value Chains (GVCs). We argue that the decline of domestic value added share in a country’s exports is likely to be caused by the expansion of high value-...

Effect of Global Financial Crisis on International Trade in Developed and Developing Countries

The recent global crisis, as a big crash ( Baldwin and Simon , 2009), has reduced foreign demand growth affecting total countries’ exports. Given the importance of foreign trade to nations and the reality that recent crisis has affected international trade we study the effects of the global financial crisis on trade relations between countries by using Ma and Cheng (2003) approach and by appl...

Global Value Chains and Africa’s Integration into the Global Economy 2.1 Global Value Chains: What They Are and How Africa Can Benefit