Abstract The past decades have witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode tide, while other many Africa region, faltered. This paper studies determinants countries’ GVC participation, based on a panel database more than 100 countries from 1990 to 2015. Results three-pronged empirical approach ...

This paper examines the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on total factor productivity in African economies. The analysis is based panel corrected standard errors, IV-estimation technique and novel Method Moment (MM)-panel quantile regression. results reveal that there positive significant relationship between Specifically, we discover GVC significant. result consistent across al...

Abstract Climate crises are being experienced all over the world and appear to be accelerating as “extreme weather” events become “new normal.” In today’s economy, where trade production activities internationally dispersed prone disruptions, global value chain (GVC) framework provides a systematic approach understand combat environmental advance sustainable development options across global, r...