The current postcrisis environment—and fragile economic recovery—increases the importance of aid for trade. Global … rebalancing and tightened fiscal budgets in the short to medium term also place renewed emphasis on aid effectiveness. This note … identifies four options to enhance the effectiveness of the multilateral aid for trade initiative: (i) expanding market access …

and have a disproportionate effect on exports of least developed countries. Giving the poorest countries duty-free access … for peak-tariff products would increase their total annual exports by roughly $2.5 billion.Most goods imported from … their total annual exports by 11 percent - or roughly $2.5 billion. Exports to Quad countries of peak-tariff products would …

(peaks) have a disproportional effect on their exports. Products subject to tariff peaks tend to be heavily concentrated in … countries (the so-called Everything But Arms initiative) will result in only a small increase in their exports of tariff peak … items (less than 1 percent of total exports). However, as preferences are less significant in other major OECD countries, a …

trade costs in Africa, and the associated political economy forces within and between countries and regional economic …

Existing research generally finds weak positive effects of aid for trade (AfT) on aggregate merchandise trade of … categories of AfT may be observed along the conditional distributions of exports and imports. Our findings confirm this …