analyze whether Aid for Trade (AfT) has helped recipient countries upgrade and diversify their exports. Estimating an … asymmetric and aggregated gravity model, we find that AfT has been effective in promoting recipient exports of manufactures …

Recent studies offer an ambiguous picture on the effectiveness of foreign aid in strengthening the export capacity of … have promoted the exports of recipient countries. We simultaneously estimate and compare the effects of AfT on trade in … both directions. We find that AfT increases recipient exports to donors as well as recipient imports from donors. The first …

We account for the competition for export markets among the donor countries of foreign aid by analyzing spatial … for export competition driving aid allocation is lacking for more altruistic donors and for aid in social infrastructure. …

We account for competition for export markets among donor countries of foreign aid by analyzing spatial dependence in … their allocation of aid for economic infrastructure and production sectors. By contrast, evidence for export competition …