In examining the effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the amounts of Aid for Trade (AfT) that … accrue to developing countries, Lee et al. (2015) (The World Economy, 38, 2015 and 1462) have found that developing country … members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) received higher AfT flows than non-WTO developing members. The present paper …

emerged in the post, Second World War era, largely in reaction to the folly of protectionism and managed trade that …