Aid for Trade effectiveness: What do evaluations say?

Claire Delpeuch (1) , Patrick Messerlin (2)

1 OCDE - Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2 GEM - Groupe d'économie mondiale

The Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative has been hailed as highly successful in raising the profile of trade as a tool for development. Developing countries have increasingly mainstreamed trade in their development strategies, while donors have responded by mobilising additional resources for trade-related programmes and projects (together referred to as operations). The AfT initiative however requires a better assessment of its outcomes and impacts in terms of trade performance, poverty reduction, growth and development (...).

Domaines: Economies et finances

Claire Delpeuch, Patrick Messerlin. Aid for Trade effectiveness: What do evaluations say?. Trade Negotiation Insights, 2011, 10 (7), pp.15-16. ⟨hal-01024481⟩