domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from …

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 …

The Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative has gained much popularity since its launch at the World Trade Organization … reforms domestically and internationally. -- Aid for Trade ; Trade Liberalization ; Trade Policy ; Trade Reform …

This study analyses the role of Aid for Trade in reducing trade costs in least developed countries (LDCs). The analysis … builds on questionnaires and case stories submitted as part of the Aid-for-Trade monitoring and evaluation exercise for the … Fifth Global Review of Aid for Trade. Trade costs are high in LDCs and constitute a major impediment to their participation …

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of the first large-scale unilateral trade concessions as foreign aid for … Pakistan's exports to the EU. The export hike occurred within a few months after the waivers became effective, and did not … significantly depress exports by competing countries. While the export boost brought greater employment opportunities in the tariff …

The Aid for Trade Initiative is an answer to developing countries’ requests for technical and financial assistance in … attempt at increasing coherence between trade policy, aid policy, and development policy has been made. The main reason is … influence aid allocation. Aid for trade is delivered on donor’s terms in the same way than any other form of aid and the WTO …

The Aid for Trade Initiative needs to be revamped. To restore confidence and improve its efficiency, aid for trade …