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Succeeding with Trade Reforms - The Role of Aid for Trade

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques; Cavazos-Cepeda, Ricardo H.; … - 2014

This book looks at four main questions relevant to the discussion of implementation and effectiveness of aid for trade. • How severe are the various possible constraints to trade expansion? • How different are the constraints to imports from the constraints to exports? • What impact would...

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Function or Signal? 1st Party or 3rd Party? Local Aid and Foreign Direct Investment

Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - 2019

Recent data advances have opened exciting new avenues for analyzing the political economy of foreign aid. Recent papers have looked at the social, environmental or welfare implications of aid. This paper, however, combines geo-referenced data on foreign aid with a similarly coded dataset of FDI...

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Business and Partnerships for Development

Kolk, Ans; van Tulder, Rob; Kostwinder, Esther - 2008

The potential contribution of companies as partners in furthering development objectives is frequently mentioned, but has received limited research attention. What has also remained unclear is to what extent companies can play such a role via the various individual and collaborative means...

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Do Donor Countries Benefit from Aid for Trade?

Ahn, Soo-Jung - 2017

Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as a significant mechanism for the development of lesser-developed countries by helping them participate in the global value chain. Grants in AfT have gradually increased since 2002 and have been invested in various sectors such as transport, storage,...

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Financing for refugee situations

OECD - 2019

. Financing from the international community makes a significant contribution to supporting refugees and host communities. But in … order to meet those needs effectively and efficiently, financing strategies need to take account of the particularities of … peace financing to work in complementary ways. Doing this effectively can create opportunities that are of benefit to both …

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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade

Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019

Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...

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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment : trends in WTO members

Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...

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Neocolonialism or balanced partnership? : reframing agricultural relations between the EU and Africa

Lungu, Ioana - 2017

The media narratives with respect to EU external policies and their effects on developing countries generally paint a picture of unequal power dynamics and negative externalities, particularly with respect to international trade and land grabbing. In this paper, I use trade data to argue that...

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Transfers in the gravity equation : the case of foreign aid

Kruse, Hendrik W.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2016

This paper presents a theoretical gravity model of trade in which foreign aid is considered as a transfer instead of being part of the trade cost, as it has been previously done in the related literature. We argue that the usual specification leads to invalid out-of-sample predictions, biased...

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Foreign assistance in a climate-constrained world

Arndt, Channing; Bach, Christian Friis - 2011

The emergence of climate finance has the potential to catalyze positive changes in the institutional architecture and distribution mechanisms for financial flows to lower income countries. The nature of the challenge of development in the context of climate change argues for recipient country...

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