Clustering value-added trade: Structural and policy dimensions

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A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added (TiVA) clusters. The level of economic development remains a crucial determinant of the TiVA profile as is the size of the economy, even if not as important as initially expected. Pro-active GVC up-grading strategies, such as investments in ICT and R&D tend to foster a higher foreign content in exports, compensating the lower domestic margin by higher volumes. Inward-oriented protectionist policies are not particularly successful in exporting higher share of domestic content, except in services exports; but in this case, export volumes remain marginal.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WTO Staff Working Paper ; No. ERSD-2014-08

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: Input-Output Tables and Analysis ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Economic Integration ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
• Subject: trade in value-added ; global value chains ; trade policy ; input-output analysis ; effective protection rate ; exploratory data analysis

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Escaith, Hubert ; Gaudin, Hadrien
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): World Trade Organization (WTO)
• (where): Geneva
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.30875/c0648f8d-en
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/104753
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET