affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substitutable. Export upgrading entails export … diversification (including overall export diversification, as well as diversification at the intensive and at the extensive margins …) and export quality improvement. The empirical analysis shows that total AfT flows have a strong positive impact on export …

This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) improves export performance, i.e. does AfT lead to greater exports …? Using panel data and panel quantile regression, our results suggest that overall AfT disbursements promote the export of … essentially vanishes at the lower tail of the conditional distribution of exports. Hence, countries that export more in volume are …