Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?

The emergence of food and agriculture global value chains (GVCs) is challenging the way scholars look at trade data, as well as how policy makers establish their trade policies. The common perception is that Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries, unlike most Latin American and Asian countries, are not...

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Autores principales: Balié, Jean, Del Prete, Davide, Magrini, Emiliano, Montalbano, Pierluigi, Nenci, Silvia
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164758
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author Balié, Jean
Del Prete, Davide
Magrini, Emiliano
Montalbano, Pierluigi
Nenci, Silvia
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description The emergence of food and agriculture global value chains (GVCs) is challenging the way scholars look at trade data, as well as how policy makers establish their trade policies. The common perception is that Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries, unlike most Latin American and Asian countries, are not deeply integrated into global production networks. Consequently, it is believed that the border protection policies of the former may have a limited impact on GVC participation. This paper challenges this conventional knowledge in two ways. First, by decomposing bilateral gross export into its value added components, we show that the sectoral and bilateral SSA participation in GVC for food and agriculture is substantial. Second, we demonstrate that trade policies impact backward and forward value chain linkages. These results call for a refinement of trade policy priorities in SSA.
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spelling CGSpace1647582024-12-22T05:44:47Z Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries? Balié, Jean Del Prete, Davide Magrini, Emiliano Montalbano, Pierluigi Nenci, Silvia agriculture biological sciences economics econometrics The emergence of food and agriculture global value chains (GVCs) is challenging the way scholars look at trade data, as well as how policy makers establish their trade policies. The common perception is that Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries, unlike most Latin American and Asian countries, are not deeply integrated into global production networks. Consequently, it is believed that the border protection policies of the former may have a limited impact on GVC participation. This paper challenges this conventional knowledge in two ways. First, by decomposing bilateral gross export into its value added components, we show that the sectoral and bilateral SSA participation in GVC for food and agriculture is substantial. Second, we demonstrate that trade policies impact backward and forward value chain linkages. These results call for a refinement of trade policy priorities in SSA. 2019-04 2024-12-19T12:54:15Z 2024-12-19T12:54:15Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164758 en Wiley Balié, Jean; Del Prete, Davide; Magrini, Emiliano; Montalbano, Pierluigi and Nenci, Silvia. 2019. Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?. American J Agri Economics, Volume 101 no. 3 p. 773-789
spellingShingle agriculture
biological sciences
economics
econometrics
Balié, Jean
Del Prete, Davide
Magrini, Emiliano
Montalbano, Pierluigi
Nenci, Silvia
Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?
title Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?
title_full Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?
title_fullStr Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?
title_full_unstemmed Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?
title_short Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub-Saharan African Countries?
title_sort does trade policy impact food and agriculture global value chain participation of sub saharan african countries
topic agriculture
biological sciences
economics
econometrics
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164758
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