This article provides a survey of the aid budget literature and examines the determinants of
the development aid efforts of 22 Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members over …

Trade facilitation (TF) is the rubric that covers the research and policy analysis on
impediments to global sourcing and multinational supply chains that are not the traditional …

There are few empirical studies assessing the effectiveness of aid for trade as regards trade
performance. Furthermore, existing work does not test which are the channels through which …

Recent studies offer an ambiguous picture on the effectiveness of foreign aid in
strengthening the export capacity of recipient countries. Moreover, the literature on aid for …

Abstract 'Aid for Trade'is an ongoing and high-profile discussion associated with the Doha
negotiations of the World Trade Organization. It also relates to questions of how best to …

While policymakers hope to stem migration flows by giving foreign aid, existing empirical
evidence points in the opposite direction: by loosening budget constraints, aid tends to …

Abstract The Aid‐for‐Trade (AfT) Initiative was launched by the Members of the World Trade
Organization (WTO) with a view to helping developing countries and the least‐developed …

This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing
countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major …

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from
measures to facilitate trade—reduce trade costs—for African countries in particular …

The extent to which official development assistance (ODA) conforms to internationally
agreed goals and principles of aid effectiveness may be influenced by donors' national …