Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) represents less than two percent of global production and less than three percent of global trade, with the corollary of hosting half of the extreme poor worldwide. The continent...
Since the introduction of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in the 1970’s, there has been widespread interest in understanding the impact of non-reciprocal trade preferences provided to sub-Saharan...
Global competition in turbulent times has seen the gradual restructuring of international trade policy. According to the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) trade monitoring report (2019), countries...
This paper studies the relationship between Asia’s economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. The authors find...
Does “infant industry” preferential access durably boost exports? Using country-product-year data for 1992–2017 and triple-differences regressions, we show that the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)...
The African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) and Everything But Arms (EBA), two preferential agreements extended by the United States (AGOA) and the European Union (EU) (EBA) to some developing countries...