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Can the electric vehicle revolution solve the climate crisis and create opportunities for developing countries?
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Alan R. Roe
July 2022
Electric vehicles (EVs) are confidently expected to decarbonize road transportation, contribute substantially to the net zero agenda, and so help to...
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Metals for the global energy transition: Opportunities and salutary lessons
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Alan R. Roe
July 2022
In a series of high-level UN Roundtables, in which I participated in 2021, experts and stakeholders explored the risks and opportunities presented by...
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India’s manufacturing and services value-chains are shifting South: A curse or a blessing?
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Karishma Banga
July 2021
Much has been written on India as an outlier in Global Value Chains (GVC). Despite being one of the largest and fastest-growing markets located in...
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Rethinking African industrialization on another Africa Industrialization Day
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John Page
December 2018
This week I attended the 28th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask...
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New research horizons: Global value chains and transaction-level customs data
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Giovanni Pasquali
January 2021
Over 70% of global trade goes through global value chains (GVCs). For firms in developing countries, insertion into GVCs has been associated with...