This paper, based on speaking notes for Second Global Aid for Trade Review, 6-7 July 2009, focuses on the internal impediments to developing countries taking advantage of international trade. Aid for Trade therefore must take into acount domestic divides, This paper uses three examples from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Lesotho.
This paper uses statistical evidence to examine the effects of aid for trade on the costs of trading and on the level of and changes in exports.
This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics focuses on a specific group of developing countries – small and vulnerable economies (SVEs) – which has largely been neglected in the AfT debate, despite the special challenges these countries faced in their integration into the global economy.
This study reviews a number of the existing ethical standards and labels in terms of their objectives, the scale and scope of their coverage, their impact on participating farmers, compliance costs and broader development impacts.
This Economic Paper explains what Aid for Trade is, and how definitions have evolved over time. Using Tanzania as a case study it shows how different definitions lead to different estimates of the amount of Aid for Trade being delivered, and suggests an alternative simple and practical methodology for recipient countries to classify and quantify it.
A key motivation of the study is a lack of good quantitative evidence on 1) actual aid for trade in-country flows and 2) the possible effects of aid for trade.
This paper aims to summarise the interests of different developing country groups in each of the most important negotiating issues at this stage of the Doha trade round.
This study will help us to understand whether and how aid for trade can help developing countries to trade and improve their economic performance. This study also illustrates the scope and limitations of a quantitative approach towards aid for trade, and should be read in conjunction with a study on whether aid for trade flows can actually be measured (Turner, 2008).
Speaking in the first panel at the Brussels Development Briefing on Aid for Trade, Sheila Page, ODI, describe the AFT agenda as result of a "bargaining process" in the framework of the Doha round. However, giving the fact that Doha is failing, Mrs. Page is afraid that the AFT agenda will become "just another aid programme" or a renamimg of existing programmes.
Source: Euforic.tv - see www.brusselsbriefings.net
Dirk Willem te Velde, 3 December 2007, presented at a European Parliament meeting organised by the Socialist Party on “Keep your promises on Aid for Trade”.