Aid-for-trade programs can help strengthen low-income countries’ supply capacity and knowledge of trade preferences, which will allow them to take fuller advantage of these preferences. Aid for trade to support preference reform can be divided into three categories: (i) creation of...

To end the dependence of African economies, the author claims for a sustained transformation of the structure of production, from low-productivity economies producing mainly unprocessed and semi-processed agricultural and mineral products primarily for export to DCs, to dynamic,...