scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

methodology involves estimating export equations for total non-oil exports and product subcategories. Commodity diversification is …There has been renewed emphasis in the recent trade policy debate on the potential positive impact of diversification … on pursuing comparative advantages rather than policy-induced export diversification. This paper studies the relationship …

market on trade growth in the regions of Africa and Asia. An exclusive comparison of trade performance of the two regions … novelty, I extend the data specification of Auboin and Engemann (2014) to the interaction of export diversification and …

to advance regional integration through intra-Africa trade is challenged by lack of complementarities of exports and …This study examines the potential for intra-Africa trade and the prospects of advancing regional economic integration … reveal the existence of significant potential for intra-Africa trade. However, realizing this potential and hence the effort …

severity for trade and economic growth. This process is crucial to prioritize trade reforms and to guide aid-for-trade resource …. We look at the growth impact of both exports and imports (and at the binding constraints they face) for all countries …

Regressions. The following main findings are established. First, bilateral aid significantly reduces the negative effect of … transnational terrorism on trade in the top quantiles of the trade distribution. Second, multilateral aid also significantly …

exports from Germany to the aid recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run each dollar of German aid is … according to our estimates, the aid-induced gains in exports generate a total employment effect of about 216,000 jobs of which …This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral …

show that Aid for Trade provided by the EU to developing countries has no significant impact on the exports of the Baltic …, the Baltic exports have decreased toward these countries, while there is a slight increase in exports to other regions … European development policy, the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative has a crucial role in helping developing countries to …