Patterns and Correlates of Supply Chain Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East and North Africa

Strong participation in Global Supply Chains (GSCs) indicates the structural transformation at the heart of the ‘Africa we want’ described in African Union’s Agenda 2063 project. We report new input-output based measures at several levels: across countries, regions, and sectors over the period 1995-2022, explore correlates of their participation, seeking to detect differences in patterns between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA), two regions often treated separately. [...]