2018/10/18 by Jean Balié, Davide Del Prete, Emiliano Magrini +2 · 98 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Agriculture #Business #Commercial policy #Comparative advantage #Economics #Firm Innovation and Growth #Food policy #Food security #Geography #Global trade and economics #Global trade, sustainability, and social impact #Global value chain #International economics #International trade #Latin Americans #Political science #Supply chain #Value (mathematics) #Value chain
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/ajae/aay091
published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101(3), 773-789 (Wiley)
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Abstract 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.