-2007 to assess the impact of trade finance and foreign aid on bilateral export flows. In addition to traditional variables, we … bilateral export flows in all developing regions except Latin America; (ii) foreign aid matters in all regions; (iii) global … economic downturns exert a negative and significant impact on export flows in all developing countries, and especially in Latin …

diversification (including overall export diversification, as well as diversification at the intensive and at the extensive margins … of FDI inflows on export diversification in host economies is mixed, these flows do exert a strong positive impact on … export quality upgrading. Furthermore, the impact of FDI on export diversification is higher in LDCs than in Non …