The Aid for Trade Initiative is an answer to developing countries' requests for technical and financial assistance in the Doha Round negotiations. These requests prompted the WTO to collaborate with donors and development agencies but no attempt at increasing coherence between trade policy, aid policy...
The Aid for Trade Initiative addresses constraints impeding supply capacities, including weak trade-related infrastructure. 贸易援助倡议处理阻碍供应能力的制约因素,包括与贸易相关的基础设施薄弱问题。 UN-2 Aid for trade to landlocked developing countries doubled since 2002. 流入内陆发展中国家的促贸援...
Aid for tradePublic infrastructureEndogenous growthStolper-Samuelson theoremTransfer paradoxAid for trade is a new foreign aid initiative to assist recipient countries to build trade-related infrastructure. We formulate a small-country, two-good (i.e., investment and consumption goods), two-factor (i...
The effectiveness of Aid for Trade has been widely discussed since the WTO launched the aid for trade initiative in 2005. Using a comprehensive panel data from 143 developing countries provided by the OECD, this research assesses the effect of Aid for Trade policy and regulation on exports. To...
The Aid for Trade (AFT) initiative, launched in 2005 to help developing and especially the Least Developed (LDCs) countries integrate the rules of the World Trade System adopted in the Uruguay Round turned out to be more about mobilizing support for the stalled Doha Round negotiations. A decade...
It shows that the Aid for Trade Initiative is delivering tangible results in improving trade performance and bettering people's lives, notably those of women, in developing countries. The report highlights that aid for trade plays an important role in enabling firms in developing countries to connec...
This note identifies four options to enhance the effectiveness of the multilateral aid for trade initiative: (i) expanding market access for least-developed countries (LDCs) through leadership by middle-income G-20 members; (ii) creating a mechanism to identify good practices in domestic regulation...
Trade-related assistance; Trade-related ODA Definitions Aid for Trade: It is a World Trade Organization (WTO)-led initiative aimed at mobilizing and effectively directing resources to support developing countries in their trade performance and stronger participation in the global trading system. It wa...
As part of the analysis, the paper provides a conceptual framework for selecting indicators of trade performance and its policy determinants that the World Trade Organization and its partners might monitor closely as part of the aid for trade initiative. 展开 ...
Aid for trade at a glance 2013: connecting to value chains It shows that the Aid for Trade Initiative is delivering tangible results in improving trade performance and bettering people's lives, notably those of wom... OECD 被引量: 77发表: 2013年 From Aid to Trade ASSESSED as one of the...