Value chain in decline: WTO

22 October 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Economic policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Trade / Trade policy and regulation
Asian Development Bank (ADB) / BRIC / Business Research Institute of Cambodia / Chinese aid / Global Value Chain / GVC / Hiroshi Suzuki / Japanese aid / World Trade Organization / World Trade Report 2014

Cambodia is one of only two economies worldwide to have declined in global value chain (GVC) participation since 1995, according to the World Trade Organization’s latest study. The WTO’s World Trade Report 2014, released Monday, shows Cambodia’s overall percentage of GVC participation – one country’s contribution to a multicountry production network – slipped from about 44 per cent in 1995 to 40 per cent in 2008. …

 Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/value-chain-decline-wto