This paper examines how a country’s integration into global value chains (GVCs) influences its economic growth. GVCs have transformed international trade by shifting the focus from final goods to fragmented production networks across countries.…
This book tackles one of Africa’s most pressing questions: how to translate the promise of continental integration into measurable economic outcomes. Using the TRADE-DSM (Decision Support Model) alongside product space methodology, the book…
The trade and poverty nexus has been extensively studied but the findings remain mixed and are very often sensitive to modelling choices and different data sources. A critical gap in this area is the limited research done on the moderating role of…
With the continuous advancement of China's reform and opening-up, the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port has become a key project in China's economic development. Since 2018, the Chinese government has clarified Hainan's…
Amidst an increasingly complex global economic landscape, the rapid expansion of digital trade has emerged as a vital growth engine for nations worldwide while simultaneously disrupting traditional international trade frameworks. Major developed…
Este artículo explora cómo la desglobalización y la fragmentación del comercio están reconfigurando los patrones de integración regional y los flujos de las cadenas de valor globales. Empleando un enfoque de métodos mixtos, combina análisis…
Este artículo presenta al lector un análisis de la norma de segundo plano que utiliza la Corte Constitucional colombiana cuando menciona y recurre a las fuentes de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) en sus fallos. Siendo esto examinado a la…
About two years ago, the world was hit by a major unexpected shock: the COVID-19 pandemic. While this health and economic crisis has had, and continues to have, a severe impact on European citizens and businesses, the euro area banking sector has so…
This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation factors on trade flows, with a particular focus on Global Value Chains (GVCs) in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using the structural gravity model of international and intra-national…
In this paper we evaluate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown policies on Tunisia’s supply chains. We estimate a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood model using data on bilateral imports for intermediate, capital, and final goods for the years 2019 and…