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African international trade in the global value chain of lithium batteries

verfasst von: Fernando Moreno-Brieva, Carlos Merino

Erschienen in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Ausgabe 6/2020

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The global value chain of lithium batteries (GVCLB) is revolutionizing different industries in the world, such as computers and vehicles, since their batteries allow the energy storage produced from various sources of electricity, renewable and conventional, online with the approaches to sustainable development and even the circular economy, highlighting that the first type is ideal for use in rural areas, as a social value, when there is no power grid. Within this global context, studies in Africa on this subject are scarce, in spite of this continent has a series of climatic characteristics, which allow the use of lithium batteries to improve the quality of life of a large percentage of its population. For this reason, the objective of this research is to analyze the degree of participation of Africa in the different components of this chain, focusing on the international trade of lithium batteries, the decomposition of comparative advantages, trade flows, and the balances of countries. Our findings show a low level of international trade in African countries within the GVCLB, except in Tunisia and South Africa, which depend heavily on imports of lithium batteries in relation to the world, especially from China and Japan. As for the commercial flows of these products within the continent, South Africa is the indisputable leader in Africa, because it exports lithium batteries to the highest number of countries.

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Lithium rechargeable batteries are known as lithium secondary batteries and lithium non-rechargeable batteries as lithium primary batteries.

Primary batteries are non-rechargeable batteries and secondary batteries are rechargeable batteries.

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the USA

Due to these characteristics, PARCA is also an ideal index for the use of linear econometric methods such as panel data.

Imports of lithium hydroxide and lithium oxide together are not considered in Fig. 3 to observe better the other results, since they have a relative variation about −0.16% and a PARCA index score about 1.007. Nor one of imports located in the catching up group of lithium secondary batteries for the same reason.

Oceania is not considered in this table because a maximum of 3 countries has trade relations with South Africa or Tunisia.

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Titel: African international trade in the global value chain of lithium batteries
verfasst von: Fernando Moreno-Brieva
Carlos Merino
Publikationsdatum: 23.01.2020
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change / Ausgabe 6/2020
Print ISSN: 1381-2386
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-1596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-020-09911-8

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