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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Comparative Advantages of selected Syrian agro-food commodity chains: implications for policy formulation
Assistance for Capacity Building Through Enhancing Operation of the National Agricultural Policy Centre
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No results found.The assessment of the comparative advantages of a given productive system encompasses a broad range of conceptual works emanating from cost-benefit analysis and the theory of international trade. The basic concept is that an economic activity in a given country has a comparative advantage as far as it can compete with alternative source of supply through import without benefiting from any specific support from the rest of the economy under the form of transfer of resources. The comparative adva ntage of productive systems is measured through the computation of several accounting entities and ratios that have been gradually developed through applied research. In the eighties these different methods have been consolidated into one method named the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), three lines by three columns table containing all the different accounting values and derived ratios needed for the analysis of the comparative advantage. This analytical framework has been widely used to assist in decision making to monitor trade liberalization process in European, South-East Asian and Sub-Saharan countries from the eighties onward. -
DocumentGlobal Agro-food Value Chains: new evidence from SSA 2016
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No results found.In the past twenty years, production has been increasingly unbundled and shared across many countries at different levels of development. The common perception is that Africa, contrary to Latin America, Asia, and China in particular, has not been able so far to intercept the main changes in trade patterns nor enter massively into global production networks. By using the EORA Input-Output Tables and applying for the first time to this data the gross exports decomposition method provided by Wang e t al. (2013), we analyze the Global Value Chain participation and position of Sub-Saharan African countries with a focus on global agro-food chains. Results show that, despite the low trade shares at the global level, SSA agricultural sector is deeply involved in GVC participation and the relevance of its international linkages is increasing over time, although still limited to upstream (likely unprocessed) production stages of the chain. Furthermore, we show that the demand pull for SSA agricul tural production is not regional but mainly driven by the EU and emerging countries.
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