The analysis of promising value chains in the African continent, opportunities and challenges of investment in different regions

Authors

  • Nadia Tahmi University of M'sila

Keywords:

Regional value chains, Investment, AfCFTA

Abstract

The aim of this research is to present a foresight of the environmental analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) for various promising value chains in the African continent, in light of the activity in the African Continental Free Trade Area, and according to what was stated in the report on the dynamics of development in Africa (2022), and various reports of international organizations specialized in international economic affairs. Since its launch, the flying goose pattern of investments and trade in East Asian countries, Japan has caused a boom in international trade by adopting the value chain model for the first time as regional supply chains, companies have flocked to it to improve their competitiveness in terms of cost, to spread the idea and become value chains with global reach. Using the descriptive approach and various desktop research tools, we have reached many results, the most important of which is: counting (94) promising and possible value chains at the African continental level out of (415) possibilities available in the context of the future activity of (AfCFTA).

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Published

01/23/2024

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 02 (2023)

Section

Articles

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