Join the network
10 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...
Filter by...
Seminar
Daria Taglioni on international trade and supply chains post COVID-19
Working Paper
Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South AfricaUsing the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009–17, this paper investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa...
Global value chains Learning by exporting ProductivityWorking Paper
Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity: Firm-level evidence across geographical clusters in the Tanzanian textiles and apparel sectorTrade-linked technological change has potential to increase incomes in low-income countries (LICs). The most labour-intensive segments of the textiles and apparel global value chain are in LICs...
Absorptive capacity Firm productivity Global value chainsBackground Note
Do more diversified suppliers rebound faster than concentrated suppliers in times of shocks?: Insights from KenyaIn this background note, we examine how different firms and sectors rebound or prevail in crises...
export firms sectors shocksWorking Paper
Linking Southern Africa into South Africa’s global value chainsThis study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competi...
Regional integration Regional value chains Global value chainsWorking Paper
Moving up the copper value chain in Southern AfricaSouthern African countries—mainly Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—account for around a seventh of global production of copper...
Copper Industrialization AgglomerationWorking Paper
Digital technologies and ‘value’ capture in global value chains: Empirical evidence from Indian manufacturing firmsThis paper examines whether digitalization can be a driver of ‘upgrading’ in global value chains and help developing countries move into higher value-added activities...
Technology Global value chains ManufacturingBlog
Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day
This week I attended the 28 th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask, why hold another African Industrialization Day at all?...
Industrialization structural change Industrial policyBook Chapter
Tourism global value chains and AfricaFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Tourism Africa Global value chainsWorking Paper
Tourism global value chains and AfricaAs Africa continues to attract record numbers of international arrivals, there are industry undercurrents that influence the continent’s participation in tourism value chains...
Tourism Africa Global value chains