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Chahir Zaki
University of Orléans and Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans
Chahir Zaki is a chaired professor of economics at the University of Orléans and a research fellow at Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans where he is the chairholder of the Chair in Environmental and Mineral Economics. Chahir is also a lead economist (part-time) at the Economic Research Forum, a professor of economics at Cairo University (on leave) and as a consultant for several international organizations. He is also the director of Egypt’s pole of the Euro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES), a member of the experts’ panel of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Association (EMEA) and a board member of the Middle East Economist Association. He has written numerous studies published in refereed journals on international trade, global value chains, environment, trade policy, trade in services, and macroeconomic modeling.
MORE ABOUT CHAHIR ZAKI >2020
Marion Dovis, Chahir Zaki
Global Value Chains and Local Business Environments: Which Factors Really Matter in Developing Countries?
This study assesses the effect of an economy’s business environment on the ability of firms to be part of a global value chain (GVC). With the use of a comprehensive firm-level dataset from the World Bank Enterprise Survey—and with a special focus on the countries of the Middle East and North Af...
2023
Yasmine Eissa, Chahir Zaki
On GVC and innovation: the moderating role of policy
This paper empirically investigates the association between global value chains (GVC) participation and countries’ innovation performance. Highlighting the learning effect of foreign knowledge embedded in imported intermediate goods counters the argument that GVC participation is biased towards de...
2024
Rym Ayadi, Giorgia Giovannetti, Enrico Marvasi, Chahir Zaki
Trade networks and the productivity of MENA firms in global value chains
Global Value Chain (GVC) participation is typically associated with a productivity premium, yet similar firms can benefit differently depending on the possibility for creating production linkages offered by their countries’ involvement in trade. We show that country-sector intermediate trade netwo...
2023
Nora Aboushady, Chahir Zaki
Are Global Value Chains for Sale? On Business-State Relations in the MENA Region
We use new data on political connections from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to examine the impact of connections on firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs) for six MENA countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Lebanon). In addition to political connect...
