Working Paper
Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity
Trade-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. However, gaps between available technologies and best...
Blog
Promoting industrialization in Africa: Global versus regional value chains
by
Julian Boys, Antonio Andreoni
November 2020
As COVID-19 ravages international trade and production, policy-makers are shifting their sights from global value chains (GVCs) to regional value...
Working Paper
Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors
With recent changes in the global economy, policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This paper examines economic and social...